The global economic downturn and the pending London Olympics brings issues involving the exploitation of vulnerable workers into sharp focus in the UK.
There has been more than a fifty percent drop in the amount of National Lottery money granted to sports groups in Wales in the five years since the 2012 Olympics were awarded to London.
People living and working with the homeless in central London have said it is hard to have faith in the Government's initiatives for rough sleepers, whilst it continues to deny the scale of the problem.
A German church has far exceeded its initial expectations in so far distributing more than 200,000 black bracelets intended as a symbolic protest against human rights abuses in China during the Olympic Games in Beijing.
The Chinese government has given permission for special distribution of booklets of the Gospels, copies of the New Testament and full Bibles during the Olympic Games, but other concerns about freedom of speech and expression remain.