Sugarcane is one of the largest agricultural commodities in the world. It can be found in everyday food and beverage items such as cereals, yogurts, soft drinks, and flavored coffees. It is typically manually harvested, often by migrants and rural workers, with little education. Sugarcane...
Poor working conditions in leather supply chains, as well as practices conducive to forced labor (e.g., lack of worker contracts and forced overtime), have been well documented by human and labor rights organizations over the past years. Today we published a case study examining how...
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre announced today the launch of a new Modern Slavery Registry website. The site captures statements made by companies under the UK Modern Slavery Act on what they are doing to eradicate modern slavery from their operations and supply...
The Responsible Sourcing Network announced today the launch of a new initiative aimed at driving cotton and yarn produced with forced labor out of corporate supply chains. Cotton produced by forced labor is well-documented in at least nine countries, and is currently making its way into...
Every year the U.S. State Department publishes its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report as a tool to engage foreign governments on human trafficking. The report ranks each country in three tiers based on their efforts to combat trafficking, with Tier 3 (its lowest level) potentially...
We are pleased to welcome Felicitas Weber, the new Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) KnowTheChain Project Lead. In her new role, she will help mange BHRRC's role within KnowTheChain by leading benchmarking efforts and furthering engagement with investors and companies. Based in London, Felicitas brings a wealth...
CORE and our partner organisations led the campaign for the introduction of the Transparency in Supply Chains clause into the Modern Slavery Act 2015. The clause requires all companies operating in the UK with a turnover of more than £36 million to publish an annual...
Last week the U.S. Senate voted to close a loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930. This act bans goods that are produced by convict, forced or indentured labor from being imported into the U.S. Yet for more than eight decades a “consumptive demand” loophole...
This week the use of technology to address human trafficking was a major theme at the annual TrustWomen conference....
Humanity United announces challenge to develop technologies to fight trafficking in supply chains ...