Daily Cuts - Combating modern slavery in Southeast Asia

23 Aug 2023 12:55PM
11 mins
23 August is UNESCO’s ‘International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition’. While slavery in the conventional sense has been abolished, an insidious form of ‘modern-day slavery’ — or human trafficking — continues to victimise many vulnerable people, including in our region. Kyla Raby, a researcher at the University of South Australia, shares how much progress is being made to stamp it out in Southeast Asia.