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The Action Research PodcastSystemic Action Research with Dr. Danny Burns and Dr. Marina ApgarIn this episode, our team has an insightful conversation with Dr. Danny Burns and Dr. Marina Apgar. Danny Burns is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) a think tank affiliated with the University of Sussex in England. He has directed more than 25 action research projects and programmes. His work focuses on participatory learning for social change with a strong emphasis on systems thinking and complexity. Marina Apgar is Research Fellow in the Participation, Inclusion and Social Change cluster at IDS. She is a human ecologist with 20 years experience working in the research-practice divide with...2021-12-2359 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastSeason 2, Episode 1: Purva Gupta and Victor Ochen Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisIn consideration of the UN’s World Day Against Child Labour this month, our special episode welcomes Purva Gupta, the Global Coordinator for the Global March Against Child Labour, and Victor Ochen, the Founder and Executive Director of African Youth Initiative Network (AYINET) to talk about about challenges to the work of ending child labour, about focusing on local needs, and suggestions for solutions. 2021-06-2628 min
The Social World Podcast117 Brian Iselin slave free tradeBrian Iselin Slavefreetrade ….Brian is an Australian/Swedish counter-slavery campaigner. He is a former soldier (6 years) and Federal Agent (13 years) who, for the last almost 20 years has specialised in counter-slavery operations around the world. While posted aboard as a Federal Agent in China, he started seeing human trafficking cases, and switched priorities to counter-slavery work. He started slave free trade www.slavefreetrade.org in 2018 to shake up a number of things about the way we tackle modern slavery.
Tens of millions of children, globally, are victims of slavery. We talk of the mammoth task to protect the vuln...2021-04-2732 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 15: Giulia Laganà Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisDr. Tina Davis and Giulia Laganà discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers and forced laborers. Giulia leads the Open Society European Policy Institute’s analysis and advocacy on EU policies on migration and asylum. A migration expert with 15 years of experience, Laganà was a senior adviser on migration, human rights, EU and international affairs to the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome from 2013 to 2016. Previously, she spent four years with the United Nations, working for UNHCR and UNDP in Italy and Brussels, respectively. While she was with the United Nations Development Programme, Laganà...2020-06-2135 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 14: Tomoya Obokata Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisDr. Tina Davis and Tomoya Obokata discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on human trafficking and modern slavery. Mr. Obokata is a Japanese scholar of international law and human rights, specialising in transnational organised crime, human trafficking and modern slavery. He was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences in March 2020.2020-06-0824 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 13: Brynn O'Brien Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisDr. Tina Davis and Brynn O’Brien discuss climate change, and how climate change is linked to human rights issues, such as modern forms of slavery and severe exploitation, and what shareholder activism is, and how this can influence better performance on environmental, social and governance issues. Brynn is a lawyer and strategist, and the Executive Director of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR). ACCR promotes better performance of Australian and global companies on climate, environmental and governance issues. As an ‘activist shareholder’ organisation, ACCR engages with companies and their investors on these issues, including through filing shareholder resolut...2020-04-2423 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 12: Terry Collingsworth Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisTerry Collingsworth is the founder and Executive Director of the International Rights Advocates. He has been practicing law in the United States for over 35 years, and for the last 25, has specialized in international human rights litigation. He has worked all over the world, from India and West Africa to most countries in South America, addressing a wide range of human rights issues. He has recently focussed on cases preventing multinational companies from violating the human rights of children who are forced by poverty and other factors to work in global supply chains.2020-04-1335 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 11: Cindy Berman Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisCindy Berman is a freelance senior consultant. At the time of the interview she served as Head of Modern Slavery Strategy at the Ethical Trading Initiative and she speaks on their behalf. In her former role, she lead ETI’s efforts to tackle forced labour, child labour, human trafficking and modern slavery – working with companies, trade unions, civil society and governments. As she has transitioned to her new role as freelance Senior Consultant, Cindy continues to provide strategic advice and thought leadership on human rights due diligence to companies and governments, engages in policy influencing and advocacy and leads compl...2020-03-1228 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 10: Kieran Guilbert Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisKieran Guilbert is the London-based Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Editor for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, leading a global team of nine journalists reporting on the topics. He has written several exclusives on the UK deporting survivors of modern slavery despite fears over re-trafficking, a rising numbers of former child slaves being denied refugee status in Britain, and labour exploitation on Indian tea plantations stamped slavery free by ethical certification schemes.2020-02-1927 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 9: Leonardo Sakamoto Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisLeonardo Sakamoto is a Brazilian journalist with an unwavering commitment to the protection of fundamental freedoms in Brazil. In 2001, he established Repórter Brasil, an NGO dedicated to monitoring and combating forced labor in Brazil. In this Episode, Leonardo discusses Brazil’s current system to fight contemporary slavery, and the challenges they face protecting it; slavery in the Brazilian Amazons and the linkage with other issues like environmental destruction, human rights and crime; and the need for an international treaty that tackles contemporary slavery in supply chains on a global scale.2020-02-1235 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 8: Urmila Bhoola Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisUrmila Bhoola is UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, including its Causes and Consequences, and Patron for the Journal of Modern Slavery, Ms. Urmila Bhoola joins Dr. Tina Davis in our first podcast episode of 2020. At the start of a new year and decade they do a stocktaking of where we are today with the global anti-slavery efforts, and points to what responses are needed to more effectively tackle the global modern slavery slavery challenges of the new decade to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.7.2020-01-1423 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 7: Chloe Setter Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisChloe Setter, Senior Advisor: Anti-Trafficking, Modern Slavery & Voluntourism at Lumos, talks with Dr. Tina Davis about the harms of institutional care for children. She discusses the complex interplay between orphanages and child trafficking and shares Lumos’ new campaign helpingnothelping.com (#helpingnothelping) to end orphanage tourism and voluntourism. Learn what you can do to help!2019-12-1834 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 6: Jessica Hubley Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisJessica Hubley, CEO of AnnieCannons, an NGO and software development company that trains and employs survivors of human trafficking and gender based violence, talks with Dr. Tina Davis about AnnieCannons' unique and innovative model to empower and educate marginalized women and arm them for success.2019-12-0727 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 5: Heather Moore Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisHeather Moore, Managing Director for the Monash University Trafficking and Slavery Research Group and Member of the Journal of Modern Slavery Advisory Board, talks with Dr. Tina Davis about Australia’s Modern Slavery legislation — its strengths and challenges — and contextualizes it among other global legislation to address modern slavery.2019-11-2526 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 4: Kevin Hyland interviewed by Dr. Tina Davis In this episode, Dr. Tina Davis interviews Kevin Hyland, former UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and current Chair of the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment with the Institute for Human Rights and Business. Mr. Hyland authored SDG 8.7 and led efforts for its inclusion in the UN’s 15-year global goals for sustainable development. In 2018, Mr Hyland was elected as Ireland’s representative to the Council of Europe Independent Group of Experts for Trafficking. He is currently a senior advisor for the Santa Marta Group. 2019-11-0638 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 3: Dr. Ina Hut interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisIn Episode 3, Dr. Tina Davis interviews Dr. Ina Hut. Dr. Hut discusses “Open Your Eyes”, an exhibition that is an initiative of CoMensha, which is the national coordination centre against human trafficking in the Netherlands that works to improve the lives of victims of human trafficking. Applying the utmost care and attention, CoMensha, together with the Open Mind foundation, found 30 people who were willing to tell their stories and allow a look into their eyes. These are 30 people whose trust and faith got them trapped into slavery, now sharing their moving stories. Stories of being forced into prostitution, of being...2019-10-2318 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 2: Victor Ochen interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisVictor Ochen is the Director and Founder of African Youth Initiative Network (AYINET), a victims-led peace movement that he established in 2005 in Northern Uganda. Victor founded AYINET in the trail of destruction experienced by victims of mass atrocities during the 20-years armed conflict in Uganda. His organization has developed an approach to peacebuilding where notions of peace and justice are not just by proxy, but have been applied practically, tangibly, and meaningfully to restore the dignity of thousands of war victims. Through his leadership, over 21,000 victims have been provided intensive reconstructive medical/surgical rehabilitation, tens of thousands provided trauma...2019-10-0549 min
SlaveFree Today PodcastEpisode 1: Fiona Reynolds Interviewed by Dr. Tina DavisJournal of Modern Slavery Assistant Editor Dr. Tina Davis interviews Fiona Reynolds. Fiona is Chair of the Liechtenstein Initiative’s Financial Sector Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. The Commission has just presented their final report to the UN: A Blueprint for Mobilizing Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking. In this episode, Fiona elaborates on the role of the financial sector in the ongoing battle against human trafficking and modern slavery.2019-09-2723 min