Hardly Soft Law: The Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the Trend Towards Mandatory Reporting on Human Rights.

The article offers information on the effort to encourage practices that will help stamp out human rights abuses. Topics discussed include the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in Great Britain, requirements of the act to deal human trafficking, slavery, and servitude, aims of the act, and new measures to provide courts tools which helps to prevent modern slavery and to assist victims of such crimes. It also discusses changes in the business policy by the government to prevent such crimes.