UN agencies and international organisations have spent countless hours and billions of dollars on the topics of human trafficking and modern slavery over the last decade.
They’ve adopted treaties and protocols. They’ve published handbooks and reports. They’ve collected data, launched prevention initiatives, and run awareness campaigns. And they’ve dispatched experts to verify what countries do in practice.
But has all this helped them form a united voice and demonstrate leadership on the issue? Has significant progress been achieved? The short answer is no. The longer answer is that the results are mixed, but at the very least some lessons have been learned along the way.
