Over the past several months, in Issara’s ongoing engagement with brands and retailers, business associations, and environmental sustainability colleagues, Issara has been asked many times what worker voice is. It is widely observed at this point that there are more and more programs and technologies emerging that refer to themselves as “worker voice,” but then also a sneaking suspicion that not all are. So how to understand what worker voice is, why it is important for both workers and business, and what harm can be done by positioning a program as worker voice when it really is not?
How can forced labour be eradicated globally? What approaches are the most effective at gaining ground towards this goal, and can they be replicated across country contexts? There are many ideas about what could work in theory, but there still is li...Read More
In 2016, there were an estimated 40.3 million victims of modern slavery in the world, more than were enslaved during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Since the adoption of the 2000 UN Trafficking Protocol, numerous efforts from inter-governmental a...Read More
The exploitation of persons– for labor or sexual purposes– is the third-largest illegal “business” after drug and arms trafficking. While slavery was officially abolished in the United States 150 years ago, in 2012 the International Labor Or...Read More
The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 and is accurate as of July 11, 2018. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may be revealed to the National Hotline over time. Conseq...Read More
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