Engaging with Companies on Modern Slavery – A Briefing for Investors

This briefing supports investors to engage with companies on their actions to tackle
modern slavery and human trafficking in their operations and supply chains. It provides
investors with:

A rationale for engagement: modern slavery risks are pervasive in business supply chains and have the potential to impact on reputation and share price.
Criteria for corporate engagement: which companies to prioritise?
Questions to initiate dialogue: engaging with companies that have only just started to consider their exposure to modern slavery, as well as questions for companies that are more advanced in addressing this issue.
Guidance on evaluating companies’ responses: fundamentals for all companies on understanding modern slavery risk.
Ideas for further action: including considering modern slavery risks when constructing investment portfolios, through to supporting ccooperations and engaging policy makers on the issues.

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Guidance: Age verification at garment factories in Myanmar

Guidance

This practical Guidance Document aims to help garment factories in Myanmar to set up a more robust Age Verifi- cation System. It is intended for use by top and middle management (HR staff in particular) of garment factories in Myanmar that supply FW...Read More

TAGS: Due Diligence Garments & Textiles Asia

Online Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Philippines: Analysis and Recommendations for Governments, Industry, and Civil Society

Guidance

This report presents the results of a study into the nature and scale of OSEC in the Philippines. This study was led by IJM, in partnership with the Philippine Government and a variety of stakeholders, under the U.S.-Philippine Child Protection Comp...Read More

TAGS: Information and Communications Technology Asia

Assessing Labor Risk for Workers Migrating from the Philippines to Europe

Guidance

The goal of this report is to provide comprehensive information on key labour risks for workers migrating from the Philippines to Europe, with an emphasis on risks that arise from the recruitment and hiring process, in order to inform effective stak...Read More

TAGS: Domestic Work/ Servitude Aquaculture & Fishing Asia Europe

Recommendations for Addressing Forced Labor Risk in the Cocoa Sector of Côte D’Ivoire

Guidance

Forced Labor — and human trafficking for forced labor — have been documented as recently as 2018 in the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire, with one recent study by the Walk Free Foundation and Tulane University estimating the number of victims at...Read More

TAGS: Sourcing or Production Agriculture, Horticulture & Landscaping Africa