The 1982 UN Law of the Sea was the largest ever annexation of our planet and our ocean. In one stroke, one-third of our planet was formally designated as ‘exclusive economic zones’, giving coastal countries rights to 200 miles of ocean around their continental shelf. The law came into force in 1994. This meant 35% of the world’s surface – equivalent to the planet’s total land area – or almost half of the world’s oceans now fell under the jurisdiction of nation states, rather than in international limbo, as much of the high seas are today. For several countries, particularly small island states, this meant that they were now over 90% underwater. However, governments have not kept pace with the evolution and reality of global ocean thinking. Many government departments with responsibility for our oceans are still siloed within individual ministries or agencies of, for example, fisheries, shipping, tourism, offshore energy or the environment, with few co-ordinating bodies or holistic ocean strategies.
The Fair Labor Association developed the ENABLE Training Toolkit to prepare sustainability managers, master trainers, and field-level practioners to apply components of the USDA Guidelines for Eliminating Child Labor and Forced Labor in Agricultura...Read More
The Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC), developed by IOM and Polaris, with contributions from Liberty Asia, is the first global data hub on human trafficking, with data contributed by counter-trafficking organizations around the world. It...Read More
This resource hub is intended to provide a central repository for resources on understanding the risk of modern slavery to business, modern slavery policy and legislation, and how this can be applied to the hotel industry. child labour T...Read More
The Global Slavery Index is an online tool that provides a country-by-country analysis of the prevalence of modern slavery, the vulnerability of each country's population to modern slavery, and different governmental responses. Using the int...Read More
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