Rights Lab, University of Nottingham

We are home to the worlds leading modern slavery experts and have built a large-scale research platform for ending slavery. We tackle a key challenge of global development and one of the great human rights issues of our time. The largest group of modern slavery scholars in the world, and home to the worlds leading academic experts on modern slavery, the Rights Lab is underpinning antislavery with an advanced research agenda. Our team is answering six big questions: 1. How many people are enslaved in the world and where are they? 2. Why does slavery persist and what creates resilience against slavery? 3. What is safe and effective support for survivors of modern slavery? 4. How can we close the implementation gap, between principle and practice? 5. What are the impacts of slavery on our economies and how can businesses tackle slavery? 6. What works to end slavery and what is the Freedom Dividend for our world when slavery ends? Each question forms a central Rights Lab programme, l...