Inquiry to examine modern slavery

17/08/2012

The Federal Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade is launching an inquiry into modern slavery in Australia.�The United Nations estimates 2.5 million people worldwide are victims of this crime and 1.2 million of these are children. Between 2004 and 2011, over 300 investigations and assessments of human trafficking and slavery offenses were conducted by the Australian Federal Police. Thirteen convictions resulted.

The committee will accept submissions, preferably by email, until Friday, 28 September 2012.

Further details about the inquiry, including how to make a submission, can be obtained from the committee’s website at http://www.aph.gov.au/jfadt or by contacting the committee secretariat on (02) 6277 2313 or emailing jscfadt@aph.gov.au.

17 August 2012