40% of people living in
modern slavery
reside in the Commonwealth
- Global Slavery Index (2018)
40.3 million lives
sold into
-
forced labour
-
sexual exploitation
-
forced marriage
-
domestic servitude
25% of them are children
The Commonwealth 8.7 Network
~local organisations working together to eradicate modern slavery
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7
A call to governments to ‘take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.’
SDG 8.7