Hear from Martin Buttle, Better Work Lead at CCLA, on how CCLA is pushing for action to end modern slavery
Despite the fact that slavery is illegal, it is estimated that today 50 million people find themselves in some form of modern slavery or human trafficking.1 To put this in context, there are more people in slavery today than at any time in human history, including when slavery was legal. As investors, we have a key role to play in tackling modern slavery, and for this reason we have united a coalition to support our investor-led, multi-stakeholder project ‘Find it, Fix it, Prevent it’. Developed by CCLA and supported by a partnership of investor bodies, academics and non-governmental organisations, it is designed to harness the power of the investment community. The overarching aim is to make the corporate response to modern slavery more effective.
1 International Labour Organisation, Global Estimates of Modern Slavery (September 2022).