The following criteria can be used by any organization to help it design an effective and transparent system for preventing human trafficking in its operations and those of its supply chain. It can also be used by an organization or an independent third party to authenticate the scope and effectiveness of the organization’s anti-human trafficking efforts. Each authentication criterion is provided with descriptions of performance that can demonstrate conformance with the criterion, or describe leading practices. Also provided are examples of the documents, data and other evidence needed for verification. A company must achieve at least “Conformance” in order for its performance to be authenticated for a given criterion.
The COVID-19 crisis has exposed once more the vulnerabilities in value chains and precarity of global business operations – and the weakness of voluntary corporate action in addressing these issues. The devastating consequences are felt most by mi...Read More
Prepared by Pekka Ylinen, Anniina Jokinen, Anna-Greta Pekkarinen, Natalia Ollus, and Katja-Pia Jenu. Identifying and investigating labour exploitation and trafficking is a challenging task. These are often international crimes in which migrant wo...Read More
The Shiva Foundation proposes that business, government, and civil society organizations look beyond modern slavery when trying to assess the prevalence of labour exploitation in the UK. They suggest a few metrics that might help track labour exploi...Read More
There are an estimated 232 million international migrants around the world today and over 90 percent of these are workers and their families. International labour migration is a defining feature of the global economy. Nearly every nation around the ...Read More
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