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Abstract:
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Each year, an estimated 27-46 million individuals worldwide are held in modern slavery. However, little is known about how the market for trafficked individuals works – and ultimately, how to prevent these crimes. Strikingly, only 12% of the published literature on trafficking was peer-reviewed. For decades, researchers have lacked large-scale sources of microdata on human trafficking. The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab is an early-stage research initiative aiming fighting human trafficking. In this talk we discuss our work focusing on Brazil. Brazil has strong open data policies and a robust commitment to fighting human trafficking, where data transparency laws have created an unprecedented opportunity. We will discuss the process of partnering with institutions, aggregating data across multiple agencies, and the heroic standardization efforts undertaken to create The Brazilian Digital Observatory of Slave Labor a resource designed to help policymakers and law enforcement with anti-trafficking policy. Most of the talk will focus on our partnership with Federal Prosecutors to understand, and automate, the data-inferential steps they take when investigating human trafficking.
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