Poverty and labour exploitation disproportionately impact women, lower castes, and non-white and indigenous people.
Confronting the root causes of forced labour: identity and discrimination
Social discrimination based on race, caste, gender and other factors is a crucial component of the forced labour equation.
Cameron Thibos
Cameron Thibos is the managing editor of Beyond Trafficking and Slavery. He is a former research associate at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and holds a D.Phil from the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford.
Neil Howard
Neil Howard is an academic activist and Prize Fellow at the University of Bath. His research focuses on unfree labour, and on the workings of the policy establishment as it seeks to respond. Follow him on twitter @NeilPHoward.