Antislavery Knowledge Network News Today

I recently returned from a trip to Sierra Leone, where my key purpose was to attend the National Conference on Trafficking in Persons which took place in Freetown. This conference, hosted by the Ministry of Social Welfare in partnership with the Office of the President, focused on ‘Strengthening National Frameworks and Stakeholder Networks to STOP Modern Slavery’.

October 18 is Antislavery day, an opportunity to talk about contemporary forms of enslavement and how to address them. The University of Liverpool has a research cluster on Slavery and Unfree Labour and is co-host of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (with Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum).