Big on ideas, short on cash: Modern slavery fund seeks to transform global fight
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation As the new chief executive of the four-year-old Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, Alex Thier has an ambitious goal – raise enough money to make human trafficking unprofitable. Hailed as a disruptive innovator at its birth – with backing from the US and British governments – the public-private partnership aimed […]
Activists warn over slavery as Mauritania joins UN human rights council
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Mauritania is backsliding in efforts to eliminate descent-based slavery, an activist and opposition member has warned, as the West African country joined the UN Human Rights Council for the first time this week. Biram Dah Abeid called on other UN members to pressure Mauritania, the last country in the world to […]
Scapegoats to supply chains: Five aims for the anti-slavery fight in 2020
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation With a decade for the world to meet a United Nations target of ending modern slavery, experts say anti-slavery efforts must be guided by survivors, supported by law enforcement and kept at the top of the global activism agenda. About 40 million people globally are estimated to be enslaved – in […]