This bill expresses the sense of the US Congress that: (1) legislation is necessary to provide consumers information on products that are free of child labour, forced labour, slavery, and human trafficking; and (2) businesses and consumers, by means of publicly available disclosures, can avoid inadvertently promoting or sanctioning these crimes through production and purchase of raw materials, goods, and finished products that have been tainted in the supply chains.
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The anti-slavery sector is concerned by the inclusion of modern slavery in the Nationality and Borders Bill and the preoccupation with viewing modern slavery through an immigration lens. This consideration paper evaluates the Clauses in Part 5 of th...Read More
On February 7, 2017 the Child Labour Due Diligence Law [‘Wet Zorgplicht Kinderarbeid’], initiated by member Van Laar (Labour Party), was adopted by the Dutch Parliament. The law requires companies to examine whether child labour occurs in thei...Read More
In 2009, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published the Model Law against Trafficking in Persons in response to the request of the General Assembly to promote and support the ratification of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and ...Read More
An Act to provide a more just and uniform procedure for Federal civil forfeitures, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. ...Read More
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