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.’