The potential for human trafficking in supply chains is a growing concern for regulatory bodies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), investors, and other stakeholders in a range of industries, most notably those that have a global and complex supply chain. Responding effectively to these concerns is a challenge for many companies. Companies that comply with conflict minerals disclosure requirements are well positioned with a strong framework for addressing similar anti-human trafficking (AHT) requirements. This publication summarizes these experiences and provides leading practices for addressing requirements and concerns around human trafficking. Human trafficking includes (but is not limited to) forced labour, child labour, and slavery, as well as coercion, abduction, fraud, and exploitation connected with labour.
Nepal has implemented, repealed and re-implemented various bans and restrictions on the migration of women migrant workers and / or migrant domestic workers since 1998, the year in which all women migrant workers were first banned from migrating to ...Read More
Workers in apparel supply chains are among the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, workers had to survive on poverty wages; in the first three months of the pandemic alone, workers lost at least US$3 billion in income. Po...Read More
The National Child Labour Survey 2013 estimated that Bangladesh is home to 3.45 million working children, including 1.28 million engaged in hazardous labour. Low commitment from the Ministry of Labour and Employment to tackling hazardous child labou...Read More
This paper focuses on the experiences of Burnese men who, having been trafficked into Thailand's offshore fishing industry, are in the process of reintegrating into Burmese society. Discussions with 15 of these men highlight how they were coerced o...Read More
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