This grant was awarded University of Notre Dame by the Australian Research Council (ARC). It was part of the larger $86,000,000 ARC's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme targeted at sponsoring 200 research projects capable of transforming how an average Australian live their lives.
Hurricane and environmental degradations are both link to climate change. When both happen it leads to massive lost of properties, lives and businesses and thus increase poverty rate, famine and overcrowding forcing people to migrate in search of food, shelters, safety and work and as a result become victims of modern slavery (force labour, human trafficking, child slavery and domestic servitude)
It should be noted that modern slavery is a great concern among people and the government of Australia. Global Slavery Index stated that in any given day in Australia in 2021, more than 41,000 people were living in modern slavery. For this reason and many other is why The Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) (the Act) came into force on 1 January 2019. The Act demanded that businesses and other entities in Australia to report on what they are doing to prevent and addressing modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains.
University of Notre Dame's (UND) $448,008 grant is expected to be used into research to advance our knowledge about the relationship between modern slavery and climate change in order to assist Australian business owners in managing these issues holistically, while holding them accountable.
As a matter of rules the research project to which the fund is released is expected to be undertaken by the early career researchers at the University.
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