The Journal of Modern Slavery is pleased to announce this call for papers for our upcoming focused issue: Slavery and humanitarian response Guest editor: Dr Aidan McQuade Aidan McQuade 🇪🇺 Deadline for submission: 5 July 2020 Full CfP at slavefreetoday.org/journalhome/

Pleased to have contributed to Delta 8.7 - The Alliance 8.7 Knowledge Platform symposium on the #AntislaveryDB and importance of detailed data to develop effective anti slavery legislation! Minderoo Foundation Walk Free Rights Lab

EVENT ALERT | Join CHRI & Walk Free on Thursday, 30 July at 11am BST/ 3.30pm IST for an online webinar ⬇ Eradicating Modern Slavery: an assessment of Commonwealth government progress on achieving SDG Target 8.7. Join the live-stream via YouTube, here: bit.ly/304R1Ut

Join us today at 11am BST to learn more about progress so far to achieve SDG 8.7 in the Commonwealth. There’s still a lot more to do...

Very pleased to have partnered with Sneh Aurora on this op ed explaining why the Commonwealth should do more to combat #modernslavery. This is the decade for delivery #WorldDayAgainstTraffickingInPersons Minderoo Foundation Walk Free Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (UK) Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI)

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Theresa May speaks about #CHOGM 2018 as one of her highlights as UK PM where a commitment to ending #modernslavery was made! ➡️ Walk Free and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (UK) recently launched a report on the #Commonwealth that shows that 1 in every 150 people live in forms of modern slavery

Super interesting @healthSEAsia will take a closer look. Similar findings from promising practices work- awareness raising only works when targeted, tailored, with clear learning outcomes (linked to specific behaviours) @bjoudo1

Pleased to participate in Human Rights Council side event on contemporary forms of slavery and COVID-19 today. Must ensure focus on #modernslavery, including continuing social protections for vulnerable pop in COVID-19 responses UN Special Rapporteur Tomoya Obokata Vera Belazelkoska Smarita Sengupta @RitaUNHR Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (UK)

Excited to share project updates from the first-ever civil society collaboration with SASB. Learn about our efforts to improve investor-backed disclosure standards with respect to #labor rights + ways to get involved: bit.ly/36jhKzk #ESG #bizhumanrights

Over 99% of all people who fall victim to #SexTrafficking are women 💔 Listen to our #podcast & help create a safer world. link.chtbl.com/blessing-okoed… Katharine Bryant, Walk Free Ilias Chatzis, UN Human Trafficking & Migrant Smuggling, UN Office on Drugs & Crime The Elders

Honoured to have participated in Finding Humanity #podcast highlighting the disproportionate impact of #modernslavery on women and girls Walk Free tinyurl.com/47v6s362

Fantastic to see this process we started at Delta 8.7 - The Alliance 8.7 Knowledge Platform over a year ago come to fruition. Congrats to @AliceEckstein UN University Centre for Policy Research & the scores of experts involved, esp Rights Lab for their evidence reviews & 3 Working Group chairs: @annacpienaar Katharine Bryant & Ruth Nyambura.

Coming up at 10am EST: Delta 8.7 Policy Guides: Assessing the Evidence Base on "What Works" to #Achieve87: 👤 Bukeni Waruzi, Free the Slaves 🗣 Katharine Bryant, Minderoo Foundation's Walk Free 🗣 @annacpienaar, International Justice Mission 🗣 Ruth Gachanja, The Judiciary Kenya Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🔴 BREAKING: The Bundestag just passed the Supply Chain Act obliging large companies to do human rights due diligence across their supply chains! Congratulations to our members CorA and Germanwatch, and all supporters and campaigners of Initiative Lieferkettengesetz 🎉

Closes July 29: join our amazing Law & Policy team led by Katarina Schwarz to focus on research about legislation, policy, governance, human rights & modern slavery/trafficking. Apply here: nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentva…

Today’s the day! After 2 years of covid related delays, Pontificia Università Gregoriana and Walk Free’s conference exploring the role of religion in combatting modern slavery starts this afternoon. If not already registered, you can follow along here: youtube.com/unigregoriana

Katharine Bryant, co-author of Walk Free’s Global Slavery Index with International Labour Organization and IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳, discusses the state of #ModernSlavery globally, supply chain exploitation and government responses, Pontificia Università Gregoriana. To learn more, click here: globalslaveryindex.org.

Congrats Tony's Chocolonely UK & IRE for winning the 2022 #stopslaveryaward! Thomson Reuters Foundation Walk Free #endslavery #modernslavery

Out today- 50 million people in #modernslavery in 2021. Increases over the past four years as a result of covid, conflict and climate change. International Labour Organization IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳 Walk Free Grace Forrest Jacqueline Joudo Larsen