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Timeline of the Fight Against Human Slavery

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It’s been 15 years since a universal treaty was adopted to fight human trafficking.  What’s happened in that time?  Here is a timeline…

A lot has transpired from 2000 when the United Nations passed, at the Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons…to this year–2015–when we saw two important initiatives–both Britain’s Modern Slavery Act and the United Nation’s adoption of 17 Sustainable Goals.

 

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