![]() Technology has fueled a surge in trafficking children online for sexual abuse with advertising a child on the internet - often done through online classified advertising sites such as - as simple as booking an airfare, activists say. Yet the crime - estimated to generate profits of about $150 billion a year globally - is becoming harder to identify, track and punish with traffickers across the world turning to technology to move, sell and exploit their victims, Bales said. "People increasingly see slavery as a problem, but we need to prove to the world that it affects many parts of our lives." "We want to do with slavery what the World Health Organization (WHO) set out to do with smallpox decades ago, and, before long, live in a world where it is eradicated," Bales, co-founder of Free the Slaves, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. ![]() Kevin Bales, a leading slavery expert and research director at the Rights Lab, said the university's multi-million pound investment was a "big step forward, a quantum leap". The new multi-million pound project aims to meet the United Nations' global goal of ending forced labour and modern slavery by 2030 - part of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015 to end poverty, tackle climate change and promote equality. More than 100 academics from at least 15 disciplines at the University of Nottingham in central England have set up the world's first large-scale research platform on slavery called the Rights Lab. LONDON, Sept 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From mapping slave labour from space to exploring links between human trafficking and environmental destruction, experts are joining forces at a British university to tackle modern slavery on multiple fronts to end the ever-evolving crime by 2030. "We want to do with slavery what the WHO set out to do with smallpox decades ago, and, before long, live in a world where it is eradicated" ![]()
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