There are no criminal provisions around slavery in 49% of world nations, groundbreaking new legal research finds.
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Police should take a wider view to join the dots that link the networks behind slavery and drugs.
After the death of 39 people in a container found on the back of a lorry in Essex, England, there are indications of exploitation on the rise.
Combat modern slavery by spending your money in places that take the issue seriously.
The real cost of footballs transfer markets: how fake agents traffic African boys with dreams of playing in Europe’s biggest leagues.
The prospect of China using forced labour to supply foreign companies highlights the importance of modern slavery laws.
Rather than requiring companies to ensure a living wage for their global supply chain workforce, the Modern Slavery Act ends up punishing them.
While some may not believe slavery and human trafficking happen in Australia, the unpalatable truth is that they do. Here are four examples of what they can look like.
Many trafficked victims are female. But what happens when the perpetrator is also female, and was once a victim herself?
Fashion Revolution week puts a spotlight on the modern slavery conditions of the fashion industry and encourages fashion consumers to ask, “who made my clothes.”
Global capitalist pressures on labour markets and the search for cheaper workers can lead to slavery.
Consumers are only benefitting from cheap clothes at considerable cost to the environment and by exploitation of a poor, vulnerable garment workers.
Just one brand of tinned tuna in Australian supermarkets is able to confidently claim slavery was not involved in its supply.
Hidden slavery is a growing global problem but we continue to turn a blind eye and embrace a seemingly insatiable demand for fast, cheap goods and services.
Soon we’ll have a better idea of what we are buying. There are no penalties, but “naming and shaming” might make Australia’s Modern Slavery Act work.
When it comes to tackling unacceptable forms of work, lessons can be learned from the global South.
The long shadows of Cambodia’s edifices of wealth and progress conceal a deeper darkness.
A lack of sustainability, profitability and transparency in the global fishing industry is exacerbating the problem of slave-like working conditions for crew. Here are the warning signs to look out for.
Most hand car wash workers are subject to some form of labour exploitation, says new report
Slavery still exists and it happens in plain sight.
Top contributors
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Anti-slavery researcher and practitioner, Adelaide University
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Professor of Law and Justice and Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic Advancement & Diversity, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool
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Professor in Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Macquarie University
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Human trafficking and modern slavery researcher, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Adelaide University
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Chair in Accountancy and Professor in Sustainability Accounting and Transparency, University of Aberdeen
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Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Sociology, Adelaide University
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Distinguished SFU Professor of Global Supply Chain Governance, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Business and Society, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex; IF Senior Research Associate, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge; Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Professor Consumer Ethics and Sustainability, University of Glasgow
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Associate professor in accounting, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Law