2025 Europe Regional Freedom From Slavery Forum
May 5-7, 2025
Kingdom of Belgium
Ministry of FPS, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
Rue de Petits Carmes/Karmelietenstraat 15
1000 Brussels, Belgium
The Europe Regional Forum comes at a time when the world faces unprecedented challenges to meet its commitments to address major issues affecting the Europe region and the global community. These issues include forced labor and child labor. Through legislative policies and an expanding program landscape, the Europe Region has been leading some of the major solutions to ensuring goods entering the region are free from forced labor and child labor. The multi-stakeholder approach to these solutions calls for assessing the progress made thus far, identifying the gaps, and increasing engagement to accelerate progress.
Some progress is being made to tackle these issues through effective frameworks such as the pathfinder process of Alliance 8.7, the EU legislative framework, and strategic policies and programs being implemented at the regional and country levels. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) assume that child labor will be eliminated by 2025. This forum offers an opportunity to dive into the progress made to date and envisioning a way forward.
The government of the Kingdom of Belgium and Free the Slaves are partnering to organize the second Europe Regional Forum to discuss key priorities to address forced labor and child labor, including in global supply chains.
Theme
Harmonizing Efforts to Eliminate Forced Labor and Child Labor: Sharing Progress and Best Practices in Europe and Globally
Daily Focus
Day One: 5 May, 2025
Day one will focus on forced labor; progress made, gaps to address, and paths forward.
Day Two: 6 May, 2025
Day two focuses on Child Labor; progress made, gaps to address, and paths forward.
Day Three: 7 May, 2025
Day three focuses on stakeholder coordination, engagement, and synergies.
Anticipted Outcomes
Unequivocal understanding of the progress and gaps in addressing forced labor and child labor.
Facilitate stakeholder coordination, engagement, and mobilization.
The forum expects around 300 participants from around the Europe region, including government representatives, businesses, persons with lived experience, civil society organizations (CSO), employer organizations, United Nations agencies, EU institutions and agencies, and academics.
Speakers and facilitators are experienced in the issues and will provide expert knowledge on the issue; they range from governments, businesses, persons with lived experience, CSOs, etc.
The Europe forum will be held under the Chatham House Rule. The views of presenters will not necessarily be representative of their respective entities.
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