JOURNAL OF MODERN SLAVERY
A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Human Trafficking Solutions
Volume 6, Issue 1, 2021
Zoë Fortune
Director of research projects with a special interest in the fields of modern slavery and mental health
Silvia Mera
Director for programs combating child and forced labour
Paul Ling
Tech architect for The Mekong Club working in the field of social compliance
Ethical auditing is one key way that companies assess compliance with labour standards and identify issues relating to forced labour. Essential information on working conditions is collected each year across thousands of factories, yet data remains proprietary, is not harmonised in format or content, and is under-utilised with costs often passed on to workers. This can lead to an underestimation of the risk of forced labour in supply chains. To overcome such challenges, the authors piloted a unique method for the collection, aggregation, analysis and visualisation of social audit data from disparate, pre-existing but hitherto under-utilised resources. Data from 2,946 audits across six Asian countries was aggregated to pilot an online interactive risk screening tool. This paper describes methods used by the team and provides an overview of the online tool. Implications for improving social compliance auditing, risk identification, data classification and aggregation are discussed.
Jarrett Davis
Social Researcher and Consultant, up! International
Glenn Miles
Senior Researcher and Consultant, up! International
Maggie Eno
Director and co-founder, M’lop Tapang
Andrew G. Rowland
Consultant in Children’s Emergency Medicine and Honorary Professor at the University of Salford
This paper explores findings from interviews with 130 children (55 girls and 75 boys) living or working on the streets and beaches in Sihanoukville, Cambodia and discusses their vulnerabilities to sexual exploitation and other forms of violence. The paper finds that while both genders indicate significant vulnerability to various forms of violence and exploitation, boys indicate experiencing higher rates of sexual violence and seem to be afforded greater independence and less supervision and protection by parents and guardians. In addressing these issues, this paper aims to add nuance to discussions on the vulnerabilities of street-involved males in Southeast Asia.
Contemporary slavery and health: mortality levels of rescued workers in Brazil
Dr. Bráulio Figueiredo Alves da Silva
Associated Professor at the Dep. of Sociology, senior researcher at the Center of Crime and Public Security Safety Studies (CRISP) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais
Bernardo Lanza Queiroz, PhD
Associated Professor of Demography and Researcher at Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (Cedeplar), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
André Braz Golgher, PhD
Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at UFMG
Luciano Rodrigues Costa, PhD
Assistant Professor at the Department of Rural Economics (DER) and at the Graduate Program in Education (PPGE) at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Brazil
Patrícia Trindade Maranhão Costa, PhD
Full Collaborator Researcher of the Post-Graduate Program in?Political Science at the University of Brasília (UnB)
This paper estimates life expectancy at birth and mortality probabilities of Brazilian workers who were rescued in working conditions analogous to slavery. We address the following questions: do those workers have higher mortality levels than similar individuals who did not suffer from such working conditions? Do these conditions affect life expectancy at birth? In an approach on the subject as a public health problem, not only a legal matter, we refer to the effects of overexploitation and violence against enslaved workers in political, social and economic processes that harm life quality and health.
Adapting a life skills training program for survivors of human trafficking
Laura Cordisco Tsai, PhD, MSSW
Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Janice Ubaldo
10ThousandWindows, Cebu, Philippines
Penny Sun
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
This brief reflection paper presents a case study of a life skills training program for survivors of human trafficking in the Philippines. Trauma-informed principles and Motivational Interviewing guide the development and implementation of this life skills development program to support survivors in achieving their educational and career goals. This article details the curriculum adaptation process, guiding frameworks, curriculum design, and recommendations for strengthening life skills programming for human trafficking survivors. The experiences of practitioners detailed in this paper are instructive for other stakeholders in the anti-human trafficking movement planning to implement life skills programming with survivors.
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