This benchmark report provides an overview of the 49 largest information communications and technology (ICT) companies efforts to tackle forced labour in their supply chains.
The benchmark analyses companies’ efforts to prevent workers from being charged recruitment fees and to introduce mechanisms to ensure that, in the cases in which workers were charged, the fees were paid back to them. It also examines companies’ efforts to ensure that workers’ right to organise and bargain collectively for better conditions, which is a crucial safeguard against abuse.
The benchmark can be easily accessed here.
This report found that while technology companies are working to bring the world closer together, they are failing to connect with workers in their own supply chains. Our ICT benchmark ranked the top 40 global ICT companies—with a combined market...
The global electronics sector is comprised of powerful corporations—the 49 largest information communications and technology (ICT) companies have a combined market capitalization of US $5 trillion and combined annual profits of almost US$1 trillion. This brings with it a duty...
Human trafficking impacts individual health (e.g. traumatic injury, infections, unwanted pregnancy, malnutrition, exposure to toxins, PTSD and depression) and results in family strife/disintegration, community bias/discrimination, business drive for...Read More
The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018 and is accurate as of July 25, 2019. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may revealed to the National Hotline over time. Consequen...Read More
How many people are trapped in forced labour? 27.6 million people are in situations of forced labour. That’s 3.5 people for every thousand in the world. 15% of adults in forced labour are migrant workers despite accounting for only around 5% o...Read More
The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 and is accurate as of July 11, 2018. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may be revealed to the National Hotline over time. Conseq...Read More
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