Supplier Responsibility
Good PracticesPublicationsThis 2019 Annual Progress Report outlines Apple's efforts in 2018.
The authors aim to contribute to discussions about whether, and how, the ever-growing Western demand for cheap garments can help to create better employment and labour conditions in Myanmar. The research also looks at the efforts of multi-stakeholder initiatives – such as Fair Labour Association, Fair Wear Foundation and Ethical Trading Initiative. Overall, it finds industry and supply chain initiatives have not delivered the needed positive impact on labour conditions.
Hidden Chains: Rights Abuses and Forced Labour in Thailand’s Fishing Industry
PublicationsThe report by Human Rights Watch describes how migrant fishers from neighboring countries in Southeast Asia are often trafficked into fishing work, prevented from changing employers, not paid on time, and paid below the minimum wage. Migrant workers ...Read More
Anti-Trafficking Review Special Issue: Traffickers
PublicationsDespite increased awareness and massive investments in combating human trafficking, there is still limited knowledge about traffickers – who they are, why they engage in trafficking, and how they operate. This Special Issue of Anti-Traffic...Read More
Human trafficking committed abroad
PublicationsSwitzerland likes to be the exception. Unfortunately, this is also the case when it comes to the direct application of the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention. Whereas the Convention states clearly that the access to support services must ...Read More
