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The protestant being held as the government holds a National Dave morning, the Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. Okay, the stream coming up next. Do education is struggling to keep pace with often failing to prepare children for todays world. But some schools are changing. Rooms are good to have half the day in spanish and half the beginning with astonishing themselves. Oh wow. I live in rebel education Early Learning mexico on it just i hey, welcome to the stream. Im 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. Thats according to a new report by the u. N. And an anti slavery and geo. So today were asking what action is needed to stamp out modern slavery . Ah, joining us to discuss from new york we have grace forest. Shes 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 whos 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. Ill be a part of this shell. Ill check your tube here in a minute. Well, well get some of your questions in. Okay. In the meantime, lets 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 weve 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 its 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 were 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. Im curious about the way we defined this. Maybe i can bring mat in here because what were 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 doesnt 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 theyre taken away from their community in force to work. And often they dont get paid the force marriage side of the equation is basically an individual who is married at a very young age and doesnt consent or somebody whos forced into a marriage whereby when they get there, its not kind of a traditional marriage that we would kind of say where theres love and affection and everything else. Theyre basically brought in the family to, to kind of support the other family members. And thats 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, youve 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 were 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. Theres those of us who walk with frontline organization financial. I dont get a vision who are born. Weve 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 thats why theyre holla ins piece is really important. But that so many people who we are basically introducing this concept to im 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 im 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. Well 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 isnt 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 thats 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 were even using terminology like slavery. And i think the Biggest Issue that were facing is just to lack of general awareness. People dont know about the issue, the not going to care, they dont care, theyre 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. Its 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, heres 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 thats when a regular customer offered him a job. Hed 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 . Arent you ashamed to be covering this topic with no, were not. Guitars had issues with those interesting werent kicked off. Yeah, there is certainly one place, ha, ha, wholly, lets talk about guitar. And i also want to ask you, grace one. Yes. Talk about guitar to though im 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 weve 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 worlds 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 weve 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 theres 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. Well talking about massive numbers here. And let me pick it from that into guitar. Just to be clear though, this global figure were talking about is an increase globally. It doesnt 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 its 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 dont you take it and then well come to you next. Ok. Go fort matter. So that video is showing a new type of Human Trafficking that we hadnt 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 thats going to pay them 34000. 00 a month. But what happens instead is theyre 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 dont, 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, its bad enough to be traffic, but to be trafficked into a situation where youre basically stealing from people from your own country. Its 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, id 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 theres 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, ive 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 dont have those 5 sports. It takes longer to move. I dont 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 youre going to happen with them, why are they moving . And thats what we need to do, got people so long as people cannot be able to take care of that family and that community. Theyre 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 were 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 theyre 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 weve been vulnerable. We all of a short gender is not something that youve 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 weve been doing that. I wonder, well, ive spoken about the facts that you encounter, like where i come from, the fact that women dont cannot be able to own land means they cant be able to access my be it means that they can, for example, be able to work for access