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The Economics Of Slavery: Spending Power Is Linked To People Power
- We might not be as free as we think we are, writes Matthew Clark.
Edward Santow – Australia’s newest Human Rights Commissioner – has noted that more people live in slavery today than at any previous time in world history.
How is that possible?
Some of the most detailed and credible estimates of how many slaves are in the world today come from Australian research by the Walk Free Foundation.
After producing The Global Slavery Index three years running, Walk Free have now joined forces with the International Labour Organization (ILO) to publish their…