The human and business risks associated with Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup – the “Mega-Sporting Effect” – stem from the influx of an estimated 500,000 to 1 million foreign workers who will be called upon to build the infrastructure for the event. Multinational companies and local enterprises engaged in building the infrastructure for the World Cup and executing the actual event in 2022 need to understand the risks to their business if they are implicated in migrant worker abuses.
At present, human rights disclosure among top-listed companies in ASEAN falls substantially short of the benchmark set by the UNGPs. The lagging human rights disclosure in ASEAN reflects a lack of specific guidelines and oversight from national and ...Read More
The National Survivor Survey is the largest and most significant effort to date to learn directly from survivors of sex and labor trafficking. This report uses the findings from this study to paint a detailed picture of the arc of trafficking – fr...Read More
Vietnam has consistently featured in official statistics on modern slavery as one of the top three source countries for victims of the crime. Driven by this, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner visited Vietnam in 2015 and subsequently commissi...Read More
This study looks at the different forms that child marriage takes in South Asia and further looks at how these variations in child marriage practices are linked to other harmful practices. The study acknowledges that child marriage takes place in v...Read More
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