Bernard
Silverman
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Modern
slavery (which is often, but not always, closely associated with human
trafficking) takes many forms: forced labour in many different sectors, debt
bondage, trafficking for sexual exploitation and forced prostitution,
domestic servitude, descent-based slavery and so on. It probably occurs in every country in the
world. As part
of the launch of the UK Government’s Modern Slavery Strategy, leading to the
Modern Slavery Act 2015, I was involved in what is probably the first
scientific estimate of the scale of Modern Slavery in the UK, obtaining an
estimate of 10,000 to 13,000 potential victims of trafficking in the UK in
2013. There is
a great need for a deeper and more detailed understanding of Modern Slavery,
throughout the world, in order to recognise and combat it. I am
involved in this area as a member of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on
Modern Slavery and of the Advisory Board of the Independent Anti-Slavery
Commissioner, and in various research collaborations, for example with the
Contemporary Slavery group at Nottingham University. |
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