Slavery is not a vestige of the past. There are today an estimated 40 million victims of modern slavery, mostly women but also men and children, according to UN data. The perpetrators gain some $150 billion a year in illicit profits, according to the International Labour Organization. We’ve assembled an all-star team of journalists who have investigated and exposed extraordinary cases of modern slavery and forced labor, including members of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams from Associated Press and their groundbreaking colleagues from Thomson Reuters Foundation and The Guardian.