A lot of work remains to be done in order to end forced labour. Thankfully, organisers and advocates around the globe are pioneering promising solutions. It's time to follow their lead.
As governmental monitoring and enforcement of labour standards has decreased, workers’ organisations and advocacy groups have pioneered their own alternative strategies to protect workers from exploitation.
Efforts to address the vulnerabilities shaped by immigration policy must be closely intertwined with the robust labour standards enforcement systems.
<p><a href="https://opendemocracy.net/author/neil-howard">Neil Howard</a> is an academic activist and Fellow at the Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp.</p>
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