Conversations on Modern Slavery

About Conversations on Modern Slavery

Conversations on Modern Slavery takes you inside the global fight to end modern slavery. Each episode features engaging conversations with researchers, survivor leaders, frontline advocates, and policy experts—diving into the root causes, current challenges, and bold solutions driving change. Whether you’re new to the issue or deeply involved in the work, this podcast offers fresh insights and powerful stories to inform, inspire, and mobilize.

Publisher

Free the Slaves

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Oct 2023

Latest episode

12 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Aug 2026

   Episode 23 - Child Labor in the Caribbean

   For this episode of Conversations on Modern Slavery, we're sharing a conversation originally recorded for Freedom Matters, a monthly radio program from the Caribbean Coalition Against Trafficking in Persons. Caribbean Regional Coordinator Adrian Alexander and Senior Program Manager for Research Dr. Marta Furlan join host Mikey Hutchinson to discuss child labor across the Caribbean. Drawing on a new fact sheet developed with the Caribbean Coalition Against Trafficking in Persons, they explain how poverty, limited access to education, family instability, and migration put children at risk, and where the line falls between helping at home and exploitation. They also share recommendations for governments, schools, communities, and families working to keep children safe and in school. The fact sheet mentioned in the episode can be downloaded from Free the Slaves website: https://freetheslaves.net/caribbean/ (One in eight children in the Caribbean is affected by child labor. Most are between five and eleven years old. In Episode 23 of Conversations on Modern Slavery, a conversation originally recorded for Freedom Matters, our Caribbean Regional Coordinator Adrian Alexander and Senior Program Manager for Research Dr. Marta Furlan talk with host Mikey Hutchinson about what drives child labor across the region, how it differs from children simply helping at home, and what a new fact sheet developed with the Caribbean Coalition Against Trafficking in Persons offers families, educators, and children themselves. Listen to the full episode: https://links.freetheslaves.net/podcast ) You can access more episodes of Freedom Matters on the CCATIP YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@CCATIPMedia (https://www.youtube.com/@CCATIPMedia)

2. 

   26 May 2026

   Episode 22: From Climate Crisis to Human Exploitation - Research Results from Antigua and Barbuda

   Climate change is often framed as an environmental or economic crisis. But there is a dimension that rarely makes it into the conversation: how environmental disruption can push people into situations of trafficking, forced labor, and exploitation. In the latest episode of Conversations on Modern Slavery, our team explores that connection through the lens of Antigua and Barbuda, a small island developing state that sits on the front lines of climate change and its consequences. We are joined by Marver Woodley, Senior Operations and Policy Manager in Antigua and Barbuda's Department of Blue Economy, bringing local knowledge and lived reality to a global conversation, Dr. Bethany Jackson (University of Nottingham), whose research maps climate hazards to exploitation risk across regions, and Dr. Marta Furlan, Senior Program Manager for Research at Free the Slaves who conducted the research. Our research identified six interconnected pathways through which climate change deepens vulnerability: loss of livelihood, health impacts, housing insecurity, forced mobility, disrupted education, and food and water insecurity. These do not operate in isolation. They create a cycle of vulnerability, and that cycle demands a people-centered response. Read the research here: https://freetheslaves.net/climate-change-and-human-exploitation-in-antigua-and-barbuda/

3. 

   9 Dec 2025

   Episode 21: Traveling Without the Truth is Dangerous

   In this powerful episode of our Conversations on Modern Slavery podcast, we sit down with Ghanaian advocate, storyteller, and survivor leader SherryNorth, also known as Missy Resilience. Sherrynorth shares her journey with honesty and courage—from being deceived by false promises of overseas opportunity, to confronting exploitation the moment she landed, to reclaiming her voice through music, advocacy, and global activism. Her story is not only about surviving trafficking—it’s about transforming trauma into leadership. She speaks candidly about: • How recruitment systems failed her long before she left Ghana • The fear and abuse she faced while working abroad • The role of community, dignity, and safe spaces in healing • What governments must change to protect migrant workers • Her message for young women considering similar migration pathways • The songs she wrote to tell her story when words felt too heavy Sherri’s voice is a reminder that survivors are not just witnesses to injustice—they are leaders redefining how the world responds to trafficking.

Who has been a guest on Conversations on Modern Slavery

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ling Li
• Jacob Sims
• Ranjana Sharma
• Dr. Marta Furlan

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YouTube views

274,277

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

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Quality

50

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

0

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