It’s Critical That The G20 Address Human Trafficking

June 28, 2019

The G20 Interfaith Forum: Why It’s Important

Human trafficking and modern slavery undercut human rights, dignity, democratic freedoms, and moral principles. It is one of the vilest forms of exploitation known. Global leaders have yet to give this scourge the attention and commitment to action it demands.

There’s a chance to do so this weekend, at the June 28-29 G20 Summit in Osaka. The G20, which at its core is a meeting to discuss key issues in the global economy, cannot ignore this blight that darkens and undermines the safe, fair, and free functioning of the world’s global trade system.

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Editor's Note: This op-ed was published as part of the follow-up to the 2019 G20 Interfaith Forum, held in Tokyo June 7 through 9. Read the rest of the article on the Daily Caller website.

About the Author

Kevin Hyland

Kevin Hyland, OBE, has focused for 15 years on efforts to end human trafficking, including work with the G20 Interfaith Forum to involve religious communities and civil society on trafficking. During a 30-year policing career, he specialized in investigating serious organized crime and headed London’s internationally recognized Human Trafficking Unit. In 2014 he was appointed the UK’s first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. An advisor to the Santa Marta Group, Hyland is also the chair of Arise, a global human trafficking organization, and a trustee to both Europe’s largest homeless charity, The Passage, and Rahab, that supports trafficked and exploited women and girls in London.