Human trafficking and exploitation are crimes that prey on the most vulnerable in society, both within Scotland and across the world. They are abuses of human rights that have life-changing negative impacts for victims.
A Corporate Group has been established, to allow business leaders to work together and support implementation of the Strategy. That group has worked closely with the Scottish Government to develop this guidance.
The Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015 (“the Act”) introduced new offences, gave police and prosecutors additional powers to tackle traffickers, raised the maximum penalty for trafficking to life imprisonment, and placed support for victims on a statutory basis....
Over the last few years, research about child sexual exploitation and abuse online has received increased attention, particularly as our lives shifted further online during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the picture remains decidedly unclear – pa...Read More
To explain how it expects its suppliers to live up to its Standards, Adidas has produced a number of supporting guidelines that detail its expectations for fair, healthy, safe workplace conditions and environmentally sound factory operations. T...Read More
More and more people are migrating for work each year, making a vital contribution to the societies and economies that host them. Yet researchers continue to document an array of abusive practices that occur systematically in the recruitment of migr...Read More
Findings from this research expand current knowledge about the various reasons why trafficking and exploitation persist in the Thai fishing industry, despite various state and corporate actions to prevent and address it. The main recommendation...Read More
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