A few days before Anti-Slavery Day 2024, we held a webinar to reflect on how modern slavery and human trafficking touches UK society and how we can work to eliminate it from our communities.
On 15 October 2024, we held a webinar with three expert speakers working in this field to examine how close this evil trade is to our own doorsteps and what we can do to liberate victims and help survivors.
Modern Slavery on our doorstep
Father Mark Odion MSP, Missionary Society of St Paul, introduces the topic, discusses the realities and stresses the importance of raising awareness of human trafficking and modern slavery in England and Wales.
British victims and missed opportunities
Carole Murphy is Professor of Sociology and Applied Research at St Mary’s University. She is also director of the Bakhita Centre for Research on Slavery, Exploitation and Abuse. Here she speaks about the British victims and missed opportunities to prevent, identify and protect.
Supporting survivors in the UK
Ben Ryan, Deputy CEO of the Medaille Trust, offers his reflections on how we can best support survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery here in the UK. He looks at this from the perspective of the Medaille Trust, a Catholic charity that provides refuge and freedom to victims of modern slavery and helps them as they seek to rebuild their lives.
Speaker, Father Mark Odion MSP is a Catholic Priest of the Missionary Society of St Paul. He is the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales' liaison officer on the Nigerian Anti-Trafficking Project and works closely with the Catholic Church in Nigerian.
Our speaker, Carole Murphy is a Professor of Sociology and Applied Research at St Mary’s University and Director of the Bakhita Centre for Research on Slavery, Exploitation, and Abuse.
Speaker, Ben Ryan is the Deputy CEO at Medaille Trust. Here he gives a presentation explaining how the organisation supports survivors of Modern Slavery.
