According to the Global Slavery Index a shocking 50 million people are currently living in modern slavery worldwide, with 10 million of those being children. The reasons for this are numerous, with the Global Slavery Index citing complex conflicts, widespread environmental degradation and the economic and social impact of Covid 19 as just some contributing factors.
To coincide with the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, we released an episode of The VICTVS Podcast to discuss this complex issue, with help from our expert guests Lucy Mann and Marija Jovanovic.
In this episode, we discuss the difficulty of defining modern slavery and the many subtle forms it can take, talking through real-life incidents our guests have come across throughout their work. We examine how to identify modern slavery as it happens, as well as what governments should be doing to prevent it. Marija also talks us through her research on the imprisonment of modern slavery survivors, highlighting how more survivors of modern slavery are in prison than traffickers.
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About our guests
In her work with the British charity Unseen, Lucy Mann helps businesses monitor for and prevent modern day slavery and worker exploitation. Unseen also runs the UK’s modern day slavery and exploitation helpline, where survivors can seek support and get advice.
Our second guest, Marija Jovanovic, is a lawyer and researcher at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She is also a co-investigator at Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC), producing research that aims to enhance people’s understanding of modern slavery and transform the effectiveness of law and policies designed to address it.
How we can help
VICTVS Assured provides Ground Truth Reporting to clients around the world. We help our clients achieve ESG compliance, which includes spotting and stopping modern day slavery. For more details on how our services can help prevent modern slavery in your supply chain and improve your ESG reporting, see our page on labour conditions.
