This Handbook is intended for case managers, service providers, communities, development entities and States working to provide protection and assistance to migrants vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse, or to mitigate and reduce factors contributing to migrant vulnerability. The guidelines, practices and standards it describes can be adapted and applied to a range of situations, including crisis, emergency, humanitarian, transition, developing and developed contexts.
The Handbook provides practical, voluntary guidance enabling States, private sector entities, international organizations and civil society to protect and assist migrants vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse and to take action to mitigate and reduce migrant vulnerability. It aims at giving guidance as to how duty bearers under international and national law can better assist and protect individual rights holders.
Modern slavery is a global phenomenon, with 40.3 million victims and $354 billion at-risk products imported by G20 countries in one year alone, according to estimates by the Walk Free Foundation (2018). Australia has historically been complicit in t...Read More
Homelessness organisations and anti-slavery organisations have both been aware of links between modern slavery and homelessness, yet there has been little research into how these issues overlap and impact on one another. An initial scoping exercise ...Read More
Studies have shown that even outside of a disaster context, approximately 50% of individuals who have been trafficked saw a health professional while being trafficked. However, first responders are rarely trained to recognize these patients, despite...Read More
The Shiva Foundation proposes that business, government, and civil society organizations look beyond modern slavery when trying to assess the prevalence of labour exploitation in the UK. They suggest a few metrics that might help track labour exploi...Read More
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