We have updated our Interactive Map for Business of Anti-Human Trafficking Organisations (www.modernslaverymap.org). The Map currently includes 112 initiatives and organisations who are working on five human-trafficking-related issues (child labour, forced labour, etc.), covering eleven industries and eight regions. Since its launch in May 2018, the Map has had 13,397 visits, among which 10,266 users visited the site at least twice.
One of the new features of the Map enables users to directly submit new initiatives and organisations for review:
The Interactive Map provides brands, suppliers and stakeholders across geographies and industries with a list of organisations around the world that can help business identify, prevent and remediate human trafficking in global supply chains. Being the only one consolidated resource for business to access this critical information, the Map aims to improve coordination on the eradication of modern slavery, providing a unique baseline from which existing and newly formed initiatives can move forward.
Given the rapid development of initiatives aimed at helping businesses fight human trafficking, the RESPECT Initiative (comprising Babson College’s Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)),...
Oyoty is a chatbot aiming to empower children to be safer online. The app runs on the child’s phone, detects threats and risks on smart devices and social networks using Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Oyoty alerts the child to risks and th...Read More
A new study conducted by IOM and the Catholic University of Peru
sheds new light on human trafficking for labour exploitation in
illegal logging and gold mining in the Madre de Dios region of the
country.
Peru is a country of origin, transit and de...Read More
Authors: Livia Wagner, Thi Hoang
The policy brief was originally posted here on GI-TOC website, as part of its #CovidCrimeWatch initiative.
The coronavirus is not only claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, but is also causing a global econo...Read More
Thousands of children affected by modern slavery are being failed by the system.
There are at least 5,000 children of modern slavery victims in the UK and the majority are not getting the support they need, with many more potentially lost in the ...Read More