An estimated 29.8 million people—many of whom are women and children—live in slavery around the world, according to the 2013 Global Slavery Index. In an effort to change this, Catholic, Anglican and Muslim leaders penned an agreement in March to eradicate slavery and trafficking by the year 2020, creating the Global Freedom Network.
According to their website: “The Global Freedom Network is an open association and other faith leaders will be invited to join and support this initiative. … [It] will also carry out a program of coordinated action and activity with international organizations, governments and national authorities, civil society organizations and NGOs, as well as people of good will around the world, to eradicate modern slavery and human trafficking.
“We will work together to make ours the last generation that has to fight the trade in human lives.”
Visit gfn2020.org to find out more.
