The NPR article highlights ongoing forced labor and human trafficking in the global seafood industry, especially in Thailand. In response, the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch launched the Seafood Slavery Risk Tool to help retailers assess and address human rights risks in their supply chains. The tool rates fisheries by risk level but encourages engagement over boycotts to drive change. Despite past scandals, many companies still struggle with transparency and accountability. Experts stress that solving this issue requires joint efforts from businesses and governments.
Over the past decade, third-party labor recruiters who facilitate employment for migrant workers across low- and middle-income countries have often been considered by the counter-trafficking community as one of the main entry points into human traff...Read More
Do you know of any initiatives and/or organisations working with the private sector on human trafficking issues? The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) and the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking (GBC...Read More
Delta 8.7 is a global knowledge platform exploring what works to eradicate forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour, an aim set out in Target 8.7 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. On any given day in 2016, the latest y...Read More
Slavery is a complex phenomenon and a pervasivescar on humanity. The control of another person, theexploitation of their body and labour, and the removalof their rights, is a degradation of all concerned. It isall too easy to see this as a problem o...Read More
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