Slavery from Space

The UN member countries have set the target of ending slavery by 2030.

However, no country has a system for actively monitoring slavery, and this lack of data leads to poor interventions and policies.

The Slavery from Space programme at the University of Nottingham aims to address this problem. The programme uses Earth Observation (EO) to identify and track the scars left on the Earth by the industries with high levels of slavery.

This includes fish processing in Bangladesh, brick-making in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, deforestation in Mozambique, cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo, agriculture in Greece, and multiple sectors in Uganda.

Read the RGS article.