Press Conference: The Fight to End Slavery
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2018-01-24

With current estimates stating 40.3 million people in slavery worldwide, modern slave trade has nearly doubled in the last years. What are concrete steps to end modern slavery, addressing the legal, economic, social and cultural obstacles at the heart of exploitation?

Speakers:
- Bob Corker, Senator from Tennessee (R); Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, USA
- Gary A. Haugen, Chief Executive Officer, International Justice Mission (IJM), USA
- Monique Villa, Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Foundation, United Kingdom

Moderator:
· Alem Tedeneke, Media Lead, Canada, Latin America and the Sustainable
Development Goals, World Economic Forum

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