Guidance from Anti-Slavery International and La Strada International for businesses to support the recruitment and employment of people displaced by conflict and address modern slavery risk in value chains through heightened human rights due diligence. 

Today, 30 July, is World Day against Human Trafficking. ETI has countersigned a letter to the US State Department protesting the awarding of a Tier 2 ranking for Thailand in the 2020 Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report

Audits are not the answer when it comes to tackling modern slavery, because it lurks in the dark parts of the supply chains that audits can’t reach. Cindy Berman, ETI’s Head of Modern Slavery, urges companies to make a genuine commitment to transparency

Anti-Slavery Day came about through an Act in the UK parliament in 2010. It designated 18 October every year as a day to acknowledge that millions of men, women and children continue to be victims of slavery, depriving them of basic human dignity and freedom

How do you measure influence? How do you get ideas and values to stick?

The book, The Tipping Point, explains how ideas spread and which elements need to come together to help an idea reach a point of critical mass. Have we reached that point in tackling modern slavery?

We can only drive up the quality of modern slavery statements if we have a clear and consistent standard to judge them against.

The global nature of complex supply chains made up of companies competing on prices, profitability and lead times increases the risk of workers being exploited, and in the worst cases, forced into modern slavery.