Finance Against Slavery & Trafficking

现已推出中文版：📙《探索美国移民幸存者的汇款需求》 联合国大学政策研究中心（UNU-CPR）发起的@反对奴役与贩运人口资金倡议（FAST）已将这份政策简报翻译成了中文，从而使广大中文读者也能阅读了解。这份简报探讨了汇款服务如何影响移民在现代奴役（包括人口贩运）中的脆弱性。 汇款不仅能够保护移民者的家庭免受贫困和剥削的风险，同时也能促进其来源国的经济发展。基于FAST幸存者融入倡议（SII）的研究成果，FAST开展了一项试点干预以研究美国移民幸存者的汇款需求。 这份报告由西联汇款的反人口贩运倡议和两大幸存者支持组织——Restore NYC和 Lutheran Services Carolinas 共同合作完成，重点分析了幸存者在获取汇款服务时面临的挑战，并提出了以幸存者为中心的解决方案。 点击阅读简报中文版：https://lnkd.in/eTJkGztG #移民 #移民者 #现代奴役 #人口贩运 #汇款 #金融行业 #金融服务 #终结现代奴役 #幸存者 #美国

After five successful years at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), FAST is moving to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) where it will become integrated into the UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub. During its time at UNU-CPR, FAST has emerged as a leading resource for advocates shaping conversations about the critical role finance can play in combating modern slavery. It has provided rigorous analysis, evidence-based approaches, and tailored tools and training. Key FAST achievements over the past five years include: 🔸 Providing free courses completed by over 55,000 anti-money laundering professionals. 🔸 Serving as a knowledge partner to investor coalitions with a combined $27 trillion assets under management. 🔸 Facilitating access to finance for nearly 4,500 survivors through the Survivor Inclusion Initiative. 🔸 Reaching nearly 130,000 finance industry professionals worldwide. FAST looks ahead to continued success at UNDP where the initiative will benefit from UNDP’s extensive in-country networks, expertise, and profile. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eUQrvbch #ModernSlavery #HumanTrafficking #FAST #HumanRights #Finance

The financial sector has huge potential to help #EndModernSlavery, incl. through: 🔗 #HRDD on investee #biz 🏗️ Leverage in high-risk sectors 🛟 Survivor financial inclusion UNDP will take the lead in implementing Finance Against Slavery & Trafficking Initiative to unlock 🔓 this potential. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/FAST-Launch

📙 “Explorando las Necesidades de Remesas de los Sobrevivientes Migrantes en los Estados Unidos” La iniciativa FAST ha traducido este Análisis informativo al español, haciéndolo accesible a una audiencia más amplia de habla hispana. El informe explora cómo los servicios de remesas impactan la vulnerabilidad de los migrantes a la esclavitud moderna, incluyendo la trata de personas. Las remesas pueden proteger a las familias de la pobreza y los riesgos de explotación, al tiempo que impulsan las economías de sus lugares de origen. Basándose en los hallazgos de la Iniciativa de Inclusión de Sobrevivientes (SII) de FAST, se llevó a cabo una intervención piloto para explorar las necesidades de remesas de los sobrevivientes migrantes en los EE. UU. El informe, desarrollado con la Iniciativa contra la Trata de Personas de Western Union y dos importantes organizaciones de apoyo a sobrevivientes, Restore NYC y Lutheran Services Carolinas, destaca los desafíos que enfrentan los sobrevivientes para acceder a los servicios de remesas y ofrece soluciones centradas en los sobrevivientes. Lee la versión en español aquí: https://lnkd.in/esMzxZ-S #migración #migrantes #esclavitudmoderna #tratadepersonas #remesas #sectorfinanciero #serviciosfinancieros #finlaclavitudmoderna #sobrevivientes #EEUU

Now available in Spanish: 📙 “Exploring Migrant Survivors’ Remittance Needs in the United States” FAST has translated this Policy Brief into Spanish, making it accessible to a wider Spanish-speaking audience. The Brief explores how remittance services impact migrant vulnerability to modern slavery, including human trafficking. Remittances can protect families from poverty and exploitation risks while also boosting home economies. Drawing from findings from the FAST Survivor Inclusion Initiative (SII), FAST conducted a pilot intervention to explore the remittance needs of migrant survivors in the US. The report, developed with the Anti-Human Trafficking Initiative at Western Union, and two major survivor support organizations, Restore NYC and Lutheran Services Carolinas, highlights the challenges survivors face in accessing remittance services and offers survivor-centered solutions. Read the Spanish version here: https://lnkd.in/esMzxZ-S #migration #migrants #modernslavery #humantrafficking #remittances #financialsector #financialservices #endmodernslavery #survivors #US

This #WorldRefugeeDay, a new FAST Thematic Review explores how financial inclusion – access to and use of financial products and services – can help protect vulnerable people exposed to the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking, including survivors, displaced people, and refugees. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eaR2SffF

On this World Day Against Child Labour, FAST is mobilizing the financial sector to actively contribute to achieving Target 8.7.    By enhancing the capacity of the financial system to detect and address the challenges faced by the 160 million children still trapped in child labour, FAST joins a global effort to #EndChildLabour.   Find out more: https://lnkd.in/edYssrE7

This new blog by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, reflects on the Protection of Civilians Week 2024 side-event hosted by FAST and All Survivors Project. The event emphasized the urgent need for gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches to protect those vulnerable to modern slavery and human trafficking in conflict zones, proposing strategies like better data collection, financial inclusion, international cooperation, and long-term capacity building. 🗞 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eDNfbkj3 Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Financial inclusion – access to and use of financial products and services – can help protect vulnerable people exposed to the risks of #modernslavery and #humantrafficking, including survivors, displaced people, and refugees. This FAST Thematic Review explores current practices addressing how financial inclusion can protect vulnerable populations from modern slavery, adding momentum to calls for the financial sector to fully play its role in eradicating modern slavery by #2030. The Review provides several key recommendations for the financial sector: 🔸 Design financial services that are accessible, affordable, appropriate, and safe for consumers; 🔸 Consider the diverse needs of financially excluded populations, especially those recovering from exploitation; 🔸 Enhance financial inclusion with financial education and literacy programs; 🔸 Recognize the role of inclusive finance in helping vulnerable populations build resilience against climate change, conflict, and economic shocks; and 🔸 Understand that financial access alone can't reduce vulnerabilities to modern slavery; addressing poverty and structural issues is essential. 📙 🔗 Access "Financial Inclusion to Protect Vulnerable Populations from Modern Slavery: A Compilation of Practices" here: https://lnkd.in/eaR2SffF Written by: Loria-Mae Heywood, PhD, and Leona Vaughn.

Yesterday, FAST hosted a Protection of Civilians Week 2024 side-event in collaboration with All Survivors Project on advancing gender-responsive and transformative approaches in the protection of civilians in conflicts, including those vulnerable to #modernslavery. Key takeaways from the discussion include: 🔸The urgency of enhancing civilian safety in conflict zones; 🔸The critical role of finance in combating modern slavery; 🔸The need for gender-inclusive anti-trafficking efforts; 🔸Comprehensive strategies addressing all forms of modern slavery; 🔸Collaborative policy development; 🔸Equitable resource allocation; and 🔸Gender-transformative approaches in complex emergencies. 🗞 The discussion expanded on the findings and recommendations of a collaborative FAST report with All Survivors Project which explores how international policy and guidance is impacting national policy and local actors in their work to implement gender-responsive actions for preventing modern slavery and financial exclusion: https://lnkd.in/eE7F6hQY Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eazwiHMv