WCC Church leaders unite their voices against modern slavery

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An international collaboration on evidence for faith actors’ activities, contributions, and challenges to achieving humanitarian and development goals. Founded in 2012, JLI came together with a single shared conviction: there is an urgent need to build our collective understanding, through evidence, of faith actors in humanitarianism and development.

Forum “Sins Before Our Eyes” on Modern Slavery, co-organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Church of England in Istanbul from February 6-7, 2017.

The aim of the gathering was to bring together distinguished scholars, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world to discuss modern slavery and emphasize the protection of human dignity and freedom as of vital importance for the Church as well as worldwide religious and human-rights communities.

Read more at WCC and Anglican Alliance

Modern Slavery – A Joint Declaration

Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech at Istanbul forum on modern slavery