Day 163, Year of #Mygration: Modern Slavery – An International Human Rights Perspective

As three people in Rochdale were sentenced this week under the Modern Slavery Act for arranging the travel of another person for the purposes of exploitation, today we bring you a free online course to help understand more about what modern slavery is. This course was voted 5 stars by our students.

The Global Slavery Index estimates that in 2016 there were 40.3million people around the world who were classified as being subjected to modern slavery. The index is one of the largest datasets on the topic, taking a detailed country by country approach to build up this global picture of the problem. Yet, the issue of modern slavery is contentious, primarily because there is no universally agreed definition. The Global Slavery Index say that modern slavery ‘refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power’ but point out that it remains an umbrella term undefined by law. This free course, rated 5 star by students, helps to start to unpack this complex phenomenon by starting from an international human rights perspective.