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i hey, welcome to the stream. i'm josh rushing, sit again for for me. ok. the you in is aiming to eradicate modern slavery worldwide by 2030 in child slavery by 2025. but the number of people in, during forced labor enforced marriage is actually on the rise. that's according to a new report by the u. n. and an anti slavery and geo. so today we're asking what action is needed to stamp out modern slavery? ah, joining us to discuss from new york we have grace forest. she's the founding director of walk free the indio that worked with the un on the new report. also in new york at the moment as sophie ot in day. she is the founder of us adi, an organization that supports the fibers of trafficking, is also the ceo with the global fun to end modern slavery. and we have in toronto,

mat friedman who's the founder and ceo of the me con club an organization working to combat slavery within the private sector. one more seat at the table that you, you that are watching on youtube. see the box over there. we have a lie producer waiting to get your comments to me so i can get him to our guest. so help me. i'll be a part of this shell. i'll check your tube here in a minute. we'll, we'll get some of your questions in. okay. in the meantime, let's begin with grace grace. tell us about the report. what were you expecting? what were you surprised by? look, i think over the last few years we've been living 3 times of really unprecedented crises. and while for many people, it was the 1st time they considered the impact of forced labor in cyclical supply chains. for us, we really sold the cove at 19 pandemic as exposing the vulnerability of our global economy, saying a 10000000 person increase from our previous report to our current one was very shocking that it's an increase the size of the population of grace funding some

28000000 people living enforced labor, and 22000000 people living in force marriages. the increase in forced labor is driven entirely due to the private economy, into global supply chains of the goods we buy and use every single day. shockingly, children make up some 25 percent of the overall figure. women and girls remain disproportionately impacted. and we're now looking down the barrel of 50000000 people living in mountain slavery on any given day, as well as the world late is not really doing enough to step up and ending it. right. thank you. i'm curious about the way we defined this. maybe i can bring mat in here because what we're talking about is forced labor and forced marriage. um, i know that a lot of people might think about slavery the way it was a 150 years ago, and they think that doesn't exist now. but can, matt, can you help us with the definition? what does modern slavery look like? modern slavery is basically a situation where a person is trick, can deceive, into

a scenario where they're taken away from their community in force to work. and often they don't get paid the force marriage side of the equation is basically an individual who is married at a very young age and doesn't consent or somebody who's forced into a marriage whereby when they get there, it's not kind of a traditional marriage that we would kind of say where there's love and affection and everything else. they're basically brought in the family to, to kind of support the other family members. and that's the situation. the reason why they put modern next to the word slavery is because the slavery of today is different from the slavery of a 150 years ago. there are a whole different set of different types of indicators that are used to measure it through auditing through supply chains and so forth. and as a result of that, we have kind of to look at this a little bit different than we have in modern slavery. or slavery that we had in years past. and sophie, you've come this week from well to the you in ga,

to, to talk about this issue can, can you tell me how this is being received there? is there a surprise there at the, i guess the big jump that this report is kind of the top line of this report is how many more people we're now talking about here? yes, definitely it. the jump is something that people are shocked about. and i think that 2 sets of people are right. there's those of us who walk with frontline organization financial. i don't get a vision who are born. we've known that the numbers are higher than what can be detected or are currently being detected. then of course tanks to walk free week, we are now seeing those numbers identified, but then we have our whole new group, which is essentially not that we are basically introducing this to them. and that's why they're holla ins piece is really important. but that so many people who we are basically introducing this concept to i'm them hearing that number, 50000000. that really shocked because most people just dont feed this issue every

day or dante can pay t math to be able to interact with it though is that, you know, would make them confronted. and oh, richard, owner. oh, i had a look grace matt and then i'm gonna share a piece of video with you. grace. go for it. no, i was just going to share that. the other thing that people shocked by is that modern slavery cuts across geographic, ethnic religious lines. it is happening in every part of the world. it is happening here in the united states. it literally is something that is a truly global issue with vulnerability that actually sits with a 50 percent off. we'll say about cases happening in middle to high income countries. so the misconception that it can happen over there, not that there is any such thing isn't over there and globalized wells, is completely false. this is happening in every corner of the globe and is deeply underpinning our global economy. now, wait a minute, before i go to you, i want to bring in a couple of voices from are you tube audience? mr. thomas? for it says, slavery is alive and well, even in the usa,

which were you were just saying grace. and he makes the point of the u. s. constitution says, no, slavery shall exist except lawful conviction will guess what? or can people into plead hills by threats dot dot dot. and actually i interviewed the number 2 guy in the alabama prison system and asked him about force labor and how can you do this? and he explicitly answered because of the 13th amendment, which most people think of as prohibiting slavery. but he was talking about the 2nd part that actually constitutionally permits slavery in the united states. and i think a lot of people would be surprised that that's actually a thing here. matt, what were you gonna say? yeah, i was just gonna say, even though the number went from 40 to 50000000, even when 10 years ago we were talking about 21000000 and then 35800000 or whatever . i present to all different audiences to corporations, to banks, to faith based groups, to the general public. and everybody shocked by this, they really just cannot get their head around the fact that we're even using

terminology like slavery. and i think the biggest issue that we're facing is just to lack of general awareness. people don't know about the issue, the not going to care, they don't care, they're not going to do anything. and i wanna share a piece of video with you. now this is from a show on al jazeera, called 101 east. it's an investigative documentary style show that covers asia. and i, what i like about this particular clip is if you wonder how people get caught up in this, here's an inside look married with a child and working in the financial securities industry in china, in late 2020 new quit his job to learn how to run a business travelling to cambodia to help manage a friends restaurant. clumsy of, with holly middle, i teach you how to sanders a tiny town because of that heat, the restaurant closed in lieu was stranded. and that's when a regular customer offered him a job. he'd would great accepting, took a pin and cancel kind of how you care to that. now make a,

yay. maybe he van dolah. thou so now lady toyota caper. but on arriving at the company, he discovered he being sold to a scan syndicate. i just couple more voices from are you to body and because i want these guys to keep contributing, this says this channels from guitar and covers modern slavery. are you guys really? aren't you ashamed to be covering this topic with no, we're not. guitars had issues with those interesting weren't kicked off. yeah, there is certainly one place, ha, ha, wholly, let's talk about guitar. and i also want to ask you, grace one. yes. talk about guitar to though i'm wondering, what do you attribute the jump to what, why are the numbers bigger now than 5 years ago? we have been able to create a comparative estimate, the last one. so unlike other estimates that do exist in the u. n. system,

we are able to honor quickly say that there has been an increase in modern slavery around the world. just wanted to make that clear in case anyone was wondering if it was true to population size, it is not okay. we put this down to really the situation of compounding crises that we've been living through for the last number of years from the covered, 19 pandemic, to conflict and crisis situations like distress migration as well as climate change . we know that the world's most vulnerable people are being hit, hardest and fastest, and that mass supply chain disruption has actually led to less safety and less visibility. but people in global supply chains and auditing, like the incredible work that we've heard about, matt and things that actually can protect people in the supply chains have not been able to happen. do true restrictions equally. we know that there's massive vulnerability in the migration system. people being trapped overseas that were, for example, a 1000000 flank and trapped overseas inside of the pandemic. unable to get home excluded from national health plans, all not being paid. we'll talking about massive numbers here. and let me pick it

from that into guitar. just to be clear though, this global figure we're talking about is an increase globally. it doesn't have country breakdown, but i would like to talk about guitar because migrant work of vulnerability is something that is a global narrative for this estimate migrant workers a 3 times more likely to experienced forced labor, the no margaret workers, despite the fact they only represent 5 percent of the globe workforce. that was the story we just saw. as you showed on here, migrant workers, less able to be protected, often having the passports were moved, creating further situations of vulnerability, making it harder for people to leave. and you know, it is good that we took back to our because the faithful, well cop is happening this year and that stadium has been built using force labor. now katara has introduced laws in this time that can protect migrant workers. and now some of the strongest laws within the region, but it's important to note that those laws, they have a very, very strong reason and for a very, a very high level of margaret work ability and molten slavery vulnerability. yeah, a little bit about the video that you put up there or go ahead. i tell you what

messenger already going. why don't you take it and then we'll come to you next. ok . go fort matter. so that video is showing a new type of human trafficking that we hadn't had much exposure to. the last 6 months about 30 percent of my time is focused on this. so kind of young educated people from taiwan, hong kong china, malaysia, singapore are being tricked and deceived into going to cambodia when they get there . they think they have a good casino job that's going to pay them $34000.00 a month. but what happens instead is they're put into the scam centers where for 14 hours they have to sit in front of a computer and basically scam people out of their money. if they don't, they get beaten, they get tortured, they get taser. and so you have literally hundreds of people in this situation. so to add insult to injury, it's bad enough to be traffic, but to be trafficked into a situation where you're basically stealing from people from your own country. it's just a terrible, horrible new incarnation of trafficking. and this came out of the co situation as

well. but the criminals were sitting round and heavy and you do, they went on mine. they realized how easy it was to scam. and then they realized that had a lot of victims, they could basically get a lot more money. wow. and so what did you want to add? no, i'd just wanted to add on to some of the inspector for stocking around my gun. i may think this is something that is quite, i would say that on my duty to of the migrant workers, you know, start talking about migrant workers from african countries from came from uganda from who are, who are being abused, but female and male and one of the things that when we talk about this issue better, better than why we go back to the narrative and when there's that, when we talk about issues so easy for people to say to not address their route carpet of kids like mica and walk on my current walk, i've gone double and the fact that pony sees that, you know,

policies that are actually resist. we start talking about the route. things that have passed was that when you walk into an app, what it gets thumped and you walk and you can be able to walk, you can be able to advocate for you. i probably don't have those 5 sports. it takes longer to move. i don't have, you know, the right to be able to speak up even when that when, when you know the system is really imposing laws that top you from walking in unemployment, right. the fact that, you know, one, the women are moving and men are moving, our values also lack of improvement in countries. and some of the things spectrum talk about in terms of what should be done is why at these people are not paying back time to be moving. right? well, if they know that this is what you're going to happen with them, why are they moving? and that's what we need to do, got people so long as people cannot be able to take care of that family and that community. they're coming to the places where they think based power and the

ability for them to take out their family. and we need to address these issues, not just a lever back to also asked why we're comfortable with the fact that, you know, sometimes people have more than especially when it comes to things like migration. so why do you make such a strong point about migration and about why they're migrating? i want to share another piece of video with you. this is what happened and some migrates. when they came to america, they cross the border and then they were ship by governors from texas and florida to different parts of the country. really just to be used as political ponce here. check this up. how do we stop this campaign abuse in human beings as human cargo and human trafficking by the governor of texas and the governor of florida is again just so jesus would be very ashamed of these 2 governors. if he saw how they were treating refugees, says jesus, and his family were for geez,

once that is just to your point though, that the migrants are the, the most vulnerable and that is happening in every part of the world. but so if you want to come back to you and ask about our women particularly vulnerable, and if so, how i think again, we go back to the show, wonder ability to write out why we've been vulnerable. we all of a short gender is not something that you've new to us. i think sometimes when we talk about more than we talk about it being independent of that issue, we would then ask the question last time before on board the reality that for long as we have in any sort of data for gender equality in this case makes women more vulnerable as a result of the issues better because we've been doing that. i wonder, well, i've spoken about the facts that you encounter, like where i come from, the fact that women don't cannot be able to own land means they can't be able to access my be it means that they can, for example,

be able to work for access investment to be able to start to be able to get, to be able to stand by them. so women proportionally affected that result of gender equality and before want to bend without it, we don't have to think about better why gender equality. and we have to think about why we need to stamp out. maybe you could just make women and got a small vulnerable. so yes, i think that report was quite key at the fact that can be run issue in the fence that you see that women are also traffic in very, very specific, you know, in a very, very specific stream. so you can walk right now on that. women are supposed to do 2nd walk means that when that traffic that type of specific in the walk that, that pre disposed to do either result of the agenda this them to men. because we see from the reports,

of course that construction comes to construction. you have more me and then you have women. so of course, when we're discussing this issue, we cannot address the issue. we have to address all of the issues that in perfect we. we have some more comments from our framed community. i want to 1st go to youtube, where angela perry has said it's important to continue highlighting and increasing awareness surrounding gender class and racial inequalities. doing so help shed ally on human rights, stripped on vulnerable populations. and we were talking about sex trafficking. there we have a journalist, elizabeth salazar, who sent us a video comment from lima, peru for the most shocking things i had seen report or whatever. if slavery is this, don't psychologically back on for my us. i remember at pier can years on think you who was 16 exploited the have mother husband in the for the safety of them. and when i go get to her, she feel better and go forth that way being ashamed. and she said she wanted to let

al fair go back to her seat the and create her own brother disk. it believe that 6 of these potential without only possible fisher for hair. so gross, i think she really talked about the cycle of this. and how damaging this can be on the people who feel trapped in and they can't get out of it. i, i, i also, i'm hoping you'll touch on here. why is forced marriage included under slavery? yeah, i just want to quickly finish off on. so these point which i agree with so vehemently that modern slavery should not be treated ever is an issue that happens in isolation. it's an intersection issue with all the global crises, both the driver of global crises, and also a symptom of global crises. and i think that just covering off on the rights of the go often in terms of cry, that's it. the 1st person to lose that, right? is the woman of the girl, the 1st person to go hungry is the woman of the go. the 1st person to be considered as an economic burden is a woman, are

a girl. and this leads us to force marriage and why it's included in the number. so we define welcome slavery as the systematic removal of a person's freedom where one person is exported by another, a personal financial gain and often falls, marriages do come with an economic tag. all girls being an economic button. we're not counting a very narrow definition of force marriage in this estimate. we're counting people who did not consent regardless of age. but if you counted old child marriage is as force, which are technically the case under international law. this figure would be in its hundreds of millions. so it is about someone being unable to leave or unable to give consent to a situation. and often, this is very important to note. there is a strong intersection between force marriage and forced labor. people who are forced into marriage are exceedingly move honorable to other types of forced labor, both within the home, in the care economy or even with in a supply chain. and it's important to note that for these estimate, while women and girls are over representing the figures for commercial sex trafficking and also enforced marriage is that actually

a 3rd of our fake is find that men and boys are being forced into marriages as well . in some cases, too, for a family to receive help from a female worker, the boy also losing their rights in the process. so it's like a compounded exploitation of what one of the, for the conversation board to what we can do about it. and we have another video comment from the stream community. this is from jessica turner, she's a spokesperson for anti slavery international. there are many different form didn't want to say great, including force marriage, human trafficking and for the sign that they re, might buried by contact. however, that often common thing that we can all the helpful to help focus on the safe green fees might be people who are reluctant to speak to authority. he seem to be unfair, who are afraid to talk to strangers, have very few personal belongings. an unable seem unable to move freely,

they need moved around so that we can make it not any easier to find them more than savory, but event happening in place. so she's given us some things to look out for there, but matt, what, what can we, what can be done about this? but it's kind of interesting what she just said. as part of this tour, i always have often women come up to me and say, you know, i was in that airport or is in that train station in that bus station. and i saw this situation where just didn't seem right. the guy was with a girl, she was didn't look like he was a part of the family. like they had any kind of chemistry or association. and as a parent, i felt like i really wanted to do something. and so this pump, this kind of statement, some kind of times comes up 56 years later, they remember this because they have that gut feeling that something's happening. what is needed is for us to train people on these signs to help them to understand that there are certain characteristics in a situation that helps us to know that perhaps what we're seeing is inappropriate.

it has to be done. and then based on that, to help people to know that there are hotline the polaris hotline, for example, in north america, that allows for people to call in and, and give information if, if you can't get, if you don't have that particular number. another thing that you can do is to just call 911 or, or go to talk to the authorities. this may be the only time that person has the possibility of somebody seeing in interacting because they're out in the public for a period of time. but we really, you need to sensitized, the general public to the fact that these indicators are there and they tell us that perhaps something bad is happening. so mat, you're talking about awareness and what can happen to individual level grace will you touch on systemically some of the bigger systems we look into, you went to governments to businesses. i definitely, well, and i just want to add to that comment that often people who are in situations of migrant worker abuse, unable to call the police and that works in their favor. they're unable to reach out to authority. sorry, we need to acknowledge that on here. and yes,

let's talk about systems change because the reality is modern slavery, as we said, doesn't happen in isolation to any other of the major global challenges that we face. but it also doesn't happen in isolation to historical slavery. there is a connection to historical slavery and modern slavery. and that connection sits as persisting structural inequality within our global economy. so, industries of historical slavery like sugar tobacco cotton up all industries with high risk for us today. that's not an accident. our systems are very much by design and not by default, and they had a so some at the expense of others. so what we need in order to fix this is to understand 1st and foremost that this is an issue that is 150 percent. manmade and something that takes just political will to fix. truly it does. this is a man made problem. the report is filled with many, many recommendations, a number of which have been informed by survive as the estimate is built by the experience of survive as a survivors have the ultimate answer to how to fix these challenges. we have all

the answers. we just, ne, political well to do it. so from a false labor perspective, i'd say my one recommendation is that we need the j 20. the world's most powerful nations responsible for 80 percent of the world trade. to ensure that there's legislation to protect people at every level of our supply chains. because if we have building how impious of the exploitation of others, while cooling ourselves fair nations is complete propaganda and unrealistic, we need to ensure that we are not exploiting people in order to serve outside when it comes to post merits great, highly contextualized. we're wrapping up the show here and what i want to do though, is i want to tweet out the report later today. that's a josh rushing. we'll get the stream to tweet it out as well. i want to thank all my guess for being here. it's such an important issue and for our audience, for participating. thank you so much. ah. hong kong was once celebrated as a beacon for press freedom in asia,

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