https://www.scmp.com/rss/500676/feed Silvia Mera is programme director at the Mekong Club, a Hong Kong-based anti-slavery NGO. She is an international speaker on the topic of modern-day slavery, works with multinational corporations from several sectors to support and advise them on their anti-slavery policies and practices and has developed several projects aimed at harnessing the power of the private sector to address this issue. Twitter: @Silvia_Mera en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The Asia-Pacific accounts for half the world’s internet usage. It is also home to some 25 million modern-day slavery victims, trapped in forced marriages, sexual exploitation and forced labour – 62 per cent of the 40.3 million modern-day slaves. With information and communications technologies so rapidly disseminating in both urban and rural communities, what role is technology playing to facilitate human trafficking and exploitation in the region? While examples of the good uses of tech are... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3008403/how-internet-fuels-sexual-exploitation-and-forced-labour?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3008403/how-internet-fuels-sexual-exploitation-and-forced-labour?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 May 2019 05:30:09 +0000