Walk Free Foundation - Government Responses to Modern Slavery

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About this survey

The Global Slavery Index, released annually by the Walk Free Foundation, aims to measure the number of people enslaved in 167 countries, assess government responses, and to assess the factors that increase the risk of being enslaved. The report has a global reach of around 1.8 billion people, and is used as a tool by governments and civil society to influence and inform policy to eradicate modern slavery. 

This year, we're asking our NGO and IO partners to provide feedback on what a particular government is doing to respond to modern slavery. The information you provide will inform our assessment of government responses. This will be released as part of the next edition of the Global Slavery Index in April 2016. 

There are 40 questions in this survey, which take approximately 45 mins to complete. You can save your answers at any time and return to complete them at a later date. You can also skip any questions you do not wish to answer. 

All information you provide will be treated as confidential and we will not include any individual or organisational details in the Global Slavery Index. Please contact katharine.bryant@walkfree.org for further details. 

Responses to questions 36- 40 on page 9 will also be used to support an information gathering exercise as part of a pilot project by Plan International to establish a legal and policy analysis index on child marriage. 

By completing this questionnaire, you consent to the information you provide to be used in the Global Slavery Index, the pilot legal and policy analysis index on child marriage, and for any other relevant publications produced by the Walk Free Foundation. 

We ask that our partners complete the survey by January 15th 2016. Any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Katharine Bryant on katharine.bryant@walkfree.org

Many thanks for agreeing to complete our survey. We very much appreciate your time and expertise.  

The Walk Free Foundation. 

A note on terminology

The Walk Free Foundation defines ‘modern slavery’ as the possession and control of a person in such a way as to significantly deprive that person of his or her individual liberty, with the intent of exploiting that person through their use, management, profit, transfer or disposal.

Modern slavery includes slavery, slavery-like practices (such as debt bondage, forced marriage, and sale or exploitation of children), human trafficking and forced labour.

Trafficking:
1.      Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons.
2.      By means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person (these means are not required in the case of children).
3.      With the intent of exploiting that person through:
a.      Prostitution of others;
b.      Sexual exploitation;
c.       Forced labour;
d.      Slavery (or similar practices);
e.      Servitude; and
f.        Removal of organs.
(UN Trafficking Protocol, 2000).

Slavery:
The status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.
Includes slavery-like practices: debt bondage, forced or servile marriage, sale or exploitation of children (including in armed conflict) and descent-based slavery.
(The Slavery Convention (1926) and Supplementary Slavery Convention (1956))

Forced labour:
In law,“forced labour” refers to work or service that is taken from a person under the menace of penalty and for which the person has not offered themselves voluntarily.
(Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957)

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