Business in the Commonwealth could help eradicate modern slavery

Australia's foreign minister Julie Bishop has said businesses across the Commonwealth could be the key to eradicating modern slavery across the world.

Speaking at the launch of a Walk Free Foundation on Modern Slavery, Bishop iterated that the commonwealth nations make up a quarter of the UN, with 2.4 billion citizens and that we ‘make a difference when we speak’.

This comes after new figures suggest that 40.3 million people are in modern slavery today.