This free course, Modern slavery, is designed to develop an understanding of the international system of human rights protection in relation to modern slavery, but also encourage an appreciation of the influence of International Human Rights Law on the development of the domestic system of human rights protection.
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- understand the historical origins of slavery as well as examples of slavery
- understand the international legal framework prohibiting slavery
- understand the concept of modern slavery and its various forms
- analyse the applicable law and apply it to a given example/case study
- critically analyse and evaluate proposals for new legislation addressing modern slavery
Course Curriculum
| Introduction | FREE | 00:05:00 | |
| What is modern slavery? | |||
| What is modern slavery? | 00:10:00 | ||
| Slavery – a historical perspective | 00:15:00 | ||
| Abolition of slavery | 00:45:00 | ||
| Wartime slavery in the twentieth century | 00:05:00 | ||
| Prohibition of Slavery - an international law perspective | |||
| Prohibition of slavery – an international law perspective | 00:05:00 | ||
| The Slavery Convention 1926 | 00:10:00 | ||
| International human rights instruments | 00:10:00 | ||
| Regional human rights instruments | 00:35:00 | ||
| International Labour Organisation (ILO) | 00:10:00 | ||
| Modern slavery - trafficking human beings | |||
| Modern slavery – trafficking human beings (THB) | 00:10:00 | ||
| The victims and perpetrators of THB | 00:30:00 | ||
| The legal framework regulating THB | 00:10:00 | ||
| Is THB a human rights issue? | 00:10:00 | ||
| Rantsev v Cyprus and Russia | 00:10:00 | ||
| Case in focus – child trafficking in Scotland | 01:30:00 | ||
| Modern slavery and forced labour | |||
| Modern slavery and forced labour | 00:05:00 | ||
| What is forced labour | 00:10:00 | ||
| Bonded labour | 01:00:00 | ||
| Business and forced labour | 00:35:00 | ||
| Magdalene laundries | 00:30:00 | ||
| Looking to the future - ending modern slavery? | |||
| Looking t the future – ending modern slavery? | 00:30:00 | ||
| Conclusion | |||
| Conclusion | 00:10:00 | ||
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Very Good course
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Completion of Modern Day Slavery Course
The training is very informative and educative. I learned a lot about THB from the course
HOUMENOU JEAN-GILLES GBEWOUENONDO
Very good, I like the lesson. Let me come back
Modern Slavery
I really appreciate the team who take part in the preparation of this course. It is fantastic in terms of presentation and inclusive in its contents. I also like the examples and the exercises in the course.
Much appreciation !!!