Survivor-informed responses to modern slavery

Project Member(s): Simmons, F., Burn, J.

Funding or Partner Organisation: The Mercy Foundation limited
The Mercy Foundation limited

Start year: 2020

Summary: At a national and international level, there is growing recognition that survivors of modern slavery should be given meaningful opportunities to shape the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of legal responses to modern slavery and to participate in modern slavery research. This qualitative research project will engage with survivor advocates and anti-slavery stakeholders to identify emerging best practice in learning from lived experience of survivors and ethical considerations in involving survivors of modern slavery in law and policy reform processes and modern slavery research. It is anticipated that this project will result in a report to the project funder, an academic publication by the project team (Frances Simmons and Jennifer Burn), and that it will result in practical recommendations that will inform future research and action, including the establishment of a survivor advisory council at Anti-Slavery Australia.

Publications:

Simmons, F & Burn, J University of Technology Sydney, Anti-Slavery Australia 2022, Beyond Storytelling | towards survivor-informed responses to modern slavery, University of Technology Sydney.

FOR Codes: Access to justice, Crime and social justice , International humanitarian and human rights law, Justice and the Law, Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified