Kevin Hyland OBE highlights the crucial lack of resources to combat modern slavery and human trafficking. It is time for the G20 and supporting countries to devote at least $30 billion every year to the fight against human trafficking, instead of $1 billion today! We want to see this in place by 2030.

This conference was organized by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Sovereign Order of Malta to the United Nations in New York in collaboration with Global Strategic Operatives, and co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of France, Mexico, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines as well as FAST Initiative (Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking).

It is nearly 25 years since the Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons was first drafted and 95 years since the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Forced Labour Convention. In 2008, the ILO estimated that out of 12.4 million people in forced labour, 2.5 million were trafficked accounting for approximately US $32 billion in profits. Today, the estimate is 27.6 million in all forms of forced labour accounting for $236 billion in profits. These huge increases strongly indicate that strategies to protect the vulnerable and combat-forced labour and trafficking have not been effective.

Kevin Hyland OBE, with a panel of experts, discusses the success and failures in the fight against modern slavery and human trafficking. He calls for $30Billion per year to be invested by 2030.