A terrible truth we have to face.
Andrew Forrest, Australian billionaire and mining magnate, has signed up Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Grand Imam of the al-Azhar mosque in Egypt, Islam's highest-ranking Sunni cleric to join forces with him in his Global Freedom Network to fight this scourge of modern-day slavery and human trafficking.
He says that he 'got dragged, really, kicking and screaming, into this cause by my daughter, Grace.' Once in, it led to his discovering a whole lot of terrible truths which he as a business magnate had to face.
And then there was no looking back. He has plunged into this cause, determined to do what he can.
Bringing in religion is a novel thing to do, no doubt, especially since we all know the power and reach religion has.
Christiane Amanpour talks to Forrest and the representatives of the religious leaders here: http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/19/religions-unite-over-anti-slavery-initiative/
