All Outputs (7)

Modern Slavery as a Threat to Forests: Reviewing the Links between Modern Slavery, Deforestation, and Potential Solutions (2021)
Book Chapter

Modern slavery is a growing concern within the developmental space. There are an estimated 40.3 million people subjected to experiences of modern slavery according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), with 15-30% of those being linked to e... Read More about Modern Slavery as a Threat to Forests: Reviewing the Links between Modern Slavery, Deforestation, and Potential Solutions.

Modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change: present and future pathways for addressing the nexus: Roundtable Report (2021)
Report

Modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change: present and future pathways for addressing the nexus (2021)
Report

Roundtable Report based on the findings of an event hosted by the Rights Lab, Delta 8.7 and funded by WWF U.S. to support the development of a collaborative action plan to support efforts for the antislavery and environmental communities to work toge... Read More about Modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change: present and future pathways for addressing the nexus.

Risk of forced labour embedded in the US fruit and vegetable supply (2021)
Journal Article

Sustainable food consumption studies have largely focused on promoting human health within ecological limits. Less attention has been paid to social sustainability, in part because of limited data and models. Globally, agriculture has one of the high... Read More about Risk of forced labour embedded in the US fruit and vegetable supply.

Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space (2021)
Journal Article

This article provides an example of the ways in which remote sensing, Earth observation, and machine learning can be deployed to provide the most up to date quantitative portrait of the South Asian ‘Brick Belt’, with a view to understanding the exten... Read More about Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space.

Growing evidence of the interconnections between modern slavery, environmental degradation, and climate change (2021)
Journal Article

The modern slavery–environmental degradation–climate change nexus may threaten the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Globally, approximately 12.2 million workers are entrapped in modern slavery in environmentally degrading acti... Read More about Growing evidence of the interconnections between modern slavery, environmental degradation, and climate change.

Developing Freedom: The Sustainable Development Case for Ending Modern Slavery, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking (2021)
Book

This project aimed to establish and promote a clear case for the global development community to prioritize anti-slavery and anti-trafficking in development programming and policies. Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7 commits states to fight mod... Read More about Developing Freedom: The Sustainable Development Case for Ending Modern Slavery, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking.