Antislavery Legislation Database Launch

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Antislavery Legislation Database Launch12 February 2020, 10-11:30AMConference Room 8, United Nations Headquarters<ul></ul>Join us for the launch of the <a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/beacons-of-excellence/rights-lab/programmes/law/legislation-database.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Antislavery Legislation Database</a>, a resource compiled by Professor Jean Allain (Monash University) and Dr Katarina Schwarz (Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham) to improve global access to anti-slavery legislation worldwide. This comprehensive, interactive online database maps all UN Member States’ domestic legislation against international anti-slavery commitments, covering slavery, the slave trade, servitude, forced labour, institutions and practices similar to slavery, and human trafficking. It provides an important new resource for policy actors, researchers and advocates. It further serves as a touchstone to monitor States’ commitment to taking ‘immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking’ by 2030, as captured in UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.7. Speakers<ul><li>Professor Jean Allain, Associate Dean, Monash University.</li><li>Dr Katarina Schwarz, Associate Director (Law and Policy Programme), the Rights Lab and Assistant Professor of Antislavery Law and Policy, University of Nottingham.</li><li>Ambassador (ret.) Luis C.deBaca, Senior Fellow, Yale MacMillan Center, and former US Ambassador-at-large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.</li><li>Dr Laura Gauer Bermudez, Director of Evidence and Learning, Global Fund to End Modern Slavery.</li></ul>Moderator<ul><li>Dr James Cockayne, Director, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research.</li></ul>Please make sure to register under your correct ticket type to gain access to the event.

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