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Modern slavery

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Acknowledgements

This course was written by Olga Jurasz.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

Course image © Edwina Sandys

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources:

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders. If any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Course image: Michael Gil in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence.

Figure 2: © Niday Picture Library / Alamy

Figure 3: Taken from University of Toronto Libraries

Figure 4: Taken from The University of Glasgow

Activity 4: Hadijatou Mani Koraou v The Republic of Niger – unofficial translation of judgment No ECW/CCJ/JUD/06/08 of 27 October 2008 , ECOWAS Community Court of Justice http://www.courtecowas.org/

Figure 5: © Scott Nelson / Getty Images

Figure 6: Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, 2012, United Nations, New York

Figure 7: Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, 2012, United Nations, New York

Figure 8: Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, 2012, United Nations, New York

Figure 10: © AFP / Stringer / Getty Images

Activity 7: Scotland: A safe place for child traffickers? A scoping study into the nature and extent of child trafficking in Scotland (2011). www.sccyp.org.uk

Activity 7: The Fifth Periodic Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child United Kingdom (2014) © HM Government 2014

Figure 11: © International Labour Organization/Berger H.

Activity 8: Poverty, Discrimination and Slavery: The reality of bonded labour in India, Nepal and Pakistan, Anti-Slavery International (2008) www.antislavery.org

Figure 12: © Unknown

Figure 13: © ITAR-TASS Photo Agency / Alamy

Video

Work Abroad (2008) produced by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime http://www.unodc.org/

Lured by a Job, Trapped in Forced Labour (2014) produced by the ILO, http://www.ilo.org/ White Gold – the True Cost of Cotton (2007): Environments Justice Foundation: http://www.ejfoundation.org/

The Magdalene Laundries Ireland – a Documentary Clip from ‘The Forgotten Maggies’ (2011). Courtesy: Steven O’Riordan

Enda Kenny issues apology through Irish Parliament in relation to Magdalene Laundries

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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