Michael Sippitt writes for Thomson Reuters on: Migration and Modern Slavery
- 28 September 2017
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The article “Migration and modern slavery” by Michael Sippitt and James Sinclair examines the global crisis of modern slavery, which affects over 40 million people worldwide.
Until lawyers start to pursue high-profile negligence cases, the status quo is likely to remain unchanged
Modern slavery is a term that has entered our political and legal lexicon over the past decade or so but it is still something that is largely misunderstood.
The reality is that modern slavery is a tragic way of life for over 40 million people worldwide, with a further 150 million young people trapped in child labour.
Modern slavery takes many forms, including: forced labour (where the employee has little or no choice but to accept or remain in abusive work), human trafficking (the movement of a person with the intention of exploiting them for labour or sexual purposes) and bonded labour (the charging of fees and use of debt bondage as a lever of exploitation for workers).
Read full Article: Thomson Reuters
The economic imperative towards migration is already strong and with the effects of climate change starting to manifest themselves in higher sea levels and more intense weather activity, we are likely to see climate migrants soon.
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