Paul's Cathedral, one of London's iconic buildings, is an inspiring setting for the exhibition Slave Britain. The cathedral, which attracted over 1. This is what he had to say: "This exhibition should shock and shame us.
Wilberforce, and the thousands of ordinary people whose protests helped secure the passing of the Act to abolish the transatlantic slave trade years ago, would be profoundly disappointed by our lack of progress since. I welcome the work of Panos, and other organisations, in raising awareness of the continuing existence of human trafficking and in challenging us to finish the work started by the 19th Century abolitionists.
Commemorating their work will be a hollow gesture however if it does not lead us to renew efforts to end this traffic for good. That so many people should be trafficked into forced labour in Britain is a situation which horrifies us all.
But we have a moral obligation not only to those who we find on our own door step, but to those in far away places too. Human trafficking and contemporary slavery are part of the greatest moral challenge today - to end global poverty - and as yet its abolition is unfinished business. Home Galleries Features Stories. Ukraine's Coal Corridor. Weary Ukrainian civilians escaping war arrive every day. They come from the chain of coal mining towns that line this east-west highway.
The E connects Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with Donetsk in the eastern Donbas region, but it now ends partway, in Pokrovsk, an increasingly dangerous and embattled city at the edge of the front line. Others have nowhere to go, and stay in a theatre, now serving as a shelter for displaced people in Pavlohrad, another coal mining city. Freshly dug defensive line positions can be seen in fields outside of Dnipro.
