Exploring the affects on Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People

 

In July 2024, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Professor Tomoya Obokata, published a Report entitled ‘Contemporary Forms of Slavery as Affecting Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People’. The Report assessed the extent to which working conditions in prison can be classified as forced and compulsory labour, and considered work opportunities after incarceration. The Special Rapporteur highlighted certain best practices but also practices that are incompatible with human rights law, and questioned whether they meet the purported aim of prison labour, namely the reintegration and rehabilitation of the incarcerated.

In this event, the Rapporteur will present his Report, and experts will comment on it.

Speakers:

• Professor Tomoya Obokata, UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
• Mario Guido, UCL
• Professor Virginia Mantouvalou, UCL
• Dr Hadassa Noorda, University of Amsterdam

Chair:
Dr Marija Jovanovic, University of Oxford, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

 

Registration:  https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2025/jun/online-un-special-rapporteur-contemporary-forms-slavery-affecting-incarcerated