Yet the laws of Sudan are absolutely silent on all these questions. There are, however, definitions of slavery which are quite obviously far looser that the generally accepted one. The long-time British human rights activist Lord Hylton, for example, chaired a conference in London on what has been described as slavery Still Alive. The Times went on to state the 'Campaigners claim that Britain has become a 'slave haven' for wealthy foreign diplomats. The issue of domestic slavery within Britain was debated at both the Labour and Liberal Democrat party conferences in 1996.
Some commentators appear to lack any definition at all.
He freely conceded his article was based on CSI material. A book by Bidget Anderson, entitled Britain's Secret Slaves and published by Anti-Slavery International, has provided the copious evidence, scrupulously documented. What Levin is actually referring to is the mistreatment of domestic servants brought to London by foreign families resident in Britain. This illustrates quite clearly a tendency to use terms such as slavery in a particularly bad manner, as clearly, from Mr Levin's point of view, the governments of Sudan and Britain both condone slavery. If in the minds of Lord Hylton, Levin and others, what they describe as slavery can exist within the United Kingdom, perhaps the freest and most democratic country in the world, where access to the legal and judicial system is direct and clear-cut, four observations follow.