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?
Findings and Recommendations from the first year of The Passage’s Anti-Slavery Project. Written by Dr Júlia Tomás. The report looks at the experiences of homelessness organisations across England in working with victims of modern slavery who...Read More
In March 2020 Delta 8.7 published an article which argued that the pandemic would impact on modern slavery in at least three ways: by heightening risks for those already exploited, increasing he risks of exploitation and disrupting response efforts....Read More
This Checklist seeks to provide companies with operational guidance on how to ensure due diligence when operating in areas where projects may affect indigenous peoples. Based on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UND...Read More
Prompted by international scrutiny of working conditions on flagship projects in Qatar and the UAE, in 2016, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre surveyed construction companies on their approach to safeguarding migrant workers’ rights ...Read More
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