Britain pledge £4 million to support Modern Slavery Innovation Fund (MSIF)
The Modern Slavery Innovation Fund (MSIF) supports international projects to trial innovative ways of stopping modern slavery, It is in news recently because Britain has pledged £4 million to support global anti-slavery projects. Six organizations – Anti-Slavery International and the United Nations University, Stronger Together, The Freedom Fund , Retrak and Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) – will share the aid money from MSIF. The funding will also be used to run workshops on modern slavery in South Africa, improve support for survivors in India, and develop an online data hub to boost anti-slavery policies. The MSIF was announced in 2016 and previously gave £6 million to schemes such as awareness-raising campaigns in Nigeria, the Philippines and Vietnam. The Freedom Fund will work in India and Nepal to enhance victim care of frontline workers.
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: Abolitionism • Anti-Slavery International • Contemporary slavery • Ethical trade • Federations • Freedom Fund • Human rights abuses • Multiple Sclerosis International Federation • Slavery • Slavery in the 21st century • Unfree labour
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