This report addresses the lack of transparency by mapping—to the extent that available data and expertise in the field make possible—the supply chains of the solar industry’s titans as well as a selection of other solar module manufacturers.
This report seeks to increase the knowledge base upon which the solar industry determines its exposures to forced labour in the Uyghur Region. We investigated the entire solar module supply chain from quartz to panel to better understand the extent to which forced labour in the Uyghur region affects international value chains.
This report documents deteriorating living and working conditions for workers in garment supply chains, including a surge in vulnerability to forced labour, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
At the same time they help us, technologies that increase surveillance of populations can also undermine basic human rights. The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems [IEEE2020] recently put forward a number of Artificial Intelligence responses to consider in light of the unique challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic; community health and crimes like trafficking share a number of important parallels when AI methods are brought to bear
As part of the Human Trafficking Center’s Taxonomy Project, we have begun to define certain key terms. These terms are meant to aid in research and are purposely not meant to reflect solely legal definitions (see Palermo Protocol, TVPA, and ILO for legal terms).
Religious groups have long been vocal proponents in the U.S.-based movement against human trafficking and contemporary slavery. Moreover, religious commitments and motivations are an invaluable resource in sustaining this kind of immensely difficult human rights work, Thus there is unquestionably a critical role for religious organizations, faith communities, and faith-based organizations to play in bringing modern slavery to an end.
Human trafficking—the exploitation of a person’s labor through force, fraud, or coercion—is a crime whose victims tend to be society’s most vulnerable. People who are homeless, lack a support system, or are desperate for work are susceptible to the promises of people who would exploit them for labor and for sex. Recently, homeless youth providers in the United States and Canada have become aware that their clients are particularly at risk of trafficking and research has begun to uncover the extent and contours of the problem within that community.
This guide is the result of in-person interviews conducted over a period of three months with anti- trafficking practitioners from both government and civil society in four Southeast Asian nations, with additional input from international experts both on human trafficking and data management. These meetings were aimed at identifying promising practices and understanding the most significant challenges for those people doing the critical day-to-day work – from investigating cases to serving survivors – of the anti-trafficking movement.
This Note proposes a new litigation strategy for vindicating the rights of trafficked workers. It argues that class actions, an increasingly popular mechanism for holding traffickers liable, are insufficient. Through an original analysis of federal class actions predicated on the Traf- ficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), I show that courts are reluctant to certify classes of traf- ficked workers and that class actions too often fail. As an alternative to class actions, this Note suggests that state attorneys general invoke their common-law parens patriae power to bring suits against traffickers under the TVPA. This strategy would preserve many benefits of the aggregate- litigation model while sidestepping the challenging procedural terrain of the modern class action.
This preliminary study investigates how consumers understand modern slavery and their role in perpetuating and/or eradicating modern slavery, bringing together a unique collaboration of investigators who are at the forefront of consumer research in consumption ethics.
This preliminary study investigates how consumers understand modern slavery and their role in perpetuating and/or eradicating modern slavery, bringing together a unique collaboration of investigators who are at the forefront of consumer research in consumption ethics.
The agricultural sector is considered high risk for forms of labour exploitation, including modern slavery. The International Labour Organisation places agriculture, alongside forestry and fishing, as the sector with the fourth highest proportion of victims of forced labour worldwide.i Within the UK, there is a lack of formal data on the prevalence of slavery within agriculture. However, the characteristics of work within this sector – tasks which are easily replicable and labourers thus easily replaceable, and a reliance on low-skilled seasonal labour – create vulnerability to modern slavery and other forms of exploitation.
Modern slavery and climate change have emerged as concurrent crises in the contemporary world. While these phenomena have been well-established separately in recent academic and policy-based debates, little discussion has taken place on the interconnections between them. An emerging area of research has begun to interrogate aspects of the nexus between modern slavery, environmental destruction and climate change, but a review of the existing literature in the area remains lacking.