Katarina Schwarz: Legal provisions against modern slavery in the world

The presentation considers the role, realities, and the future of the law in the fight against modern slavery based on the work of the Rights Lab of the Nottingham University, the largest research centre dedicated to putting an end to modern slavery. Based on the assumption that the interrelationship between slavery and the law has not always pushed in the same direction, the presentation focuses on the history of slavery and human exploitation as well as of abolitionism. It challenges a general notion that slavery is illegal in every country and provides evidence-based picture of current domestic laws against slavery, practices similar to slavery, servitude, forced labour and human trafficking around the globe. More information: https://antislaverylaw.ac.uk/

This presentation was part of the EMN Slovakia’s National Conference entitled Dignified Labour Conditions as a Tool to Fight Modern Slavery which took place in Bratislava on 1 December 2022. The Conference was organised by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the coordinator of the EMN National Contact Point for the Slovak Republic. The EMN is funded by the European Union and co-funded by the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic. 

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