S08E06 James Cockayne on The Sustainable Development Case for Ending Modern Slavery
In this episode of Voices IHRB Head of Migrant Workers programme Neill Wilkins talks to Professor James Cockayne the report’s lead author about the long term impacts of slavery on development and the factors embedded within global value chains that maintain the status quo.
Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World · Neill Wilkins, James Cockayne
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Show Notes
A new report Developing Freedom from the UN University suggests a new way of understanding and addressing slavery may be helpful. If slavery is a systemic issue deeply embedded in economic models which deny people any agency, how could improved development outcomes and the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals be used to understand the drivers and leverage better responses to prevent exploitation?
About James Cockayne
James Cockayne is Professor of Global Politics and Anti-Slavery at the University of Nottingham in the UK, and a Senior Fellow at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research. He currently chairs the US Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Trafficking in Persons and is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Council for the New Agenda on Equity and Social Justice.