Pressure from business leaders and a simple legislative process leave few excuses for not introducing rules to combat modern slavery in commercial supply chains.
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Articles on Modern slavery
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121 companies in Australia have delivered their first reports required by the Modern Slavery Act.
One in six fishers in the Gulf of Thailand have been coerced or deceived into working against their will.
How to ensure your personal protective gear isn’t made by an exploited person.
Coronavirus has revealed the extreme plight of Bangladeshi factory workers.
Slavery and slavery-like practices exist in Australia, in the form of forced marriages, sexual exploitation and forced labour.
Slavery in Australia is not an issue confined to the past. It needs urgent action, and a key step is to embrace the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
In the shadows of the agenda to accelerate India-Australia trade and investment is the risk of pushing Indian workers into slave conditions.
Workers further down supply chains are being left destitute and exposed to exploitation.
Informal retailers that dot South Africa's townships have changed dramatically, but at great cost - avoidance of regulation and exploitation of employees.
There are no criminal provisions around slavery in 49% of world nations, groundbreaking new legal research finds.
Police should take a wider view to join the dots that link the networks behind slavery and drugs.
After the death of 39 people in a container found on the back of a lorry in Essex, England, there are indications of exploitation on the rise.
Combat modern slavery by spending your money in places that take the issue seriously.
The real cost of footballs transfer markets: how fake agents traffic African boys with dreams of playing in Europe’s biggest leagues.
The prospect of China using forced labour to supply foreign companies highlights the importance of modern slavery laws.
Rather than requiring companies to ensure a living wage for their global supply chain workforce, the Modern Slavery Act ends up punishing them.
While some may not believe slavery and human trafficking happen in Australia, the unpalatable truth is that they do. Here are four examples of what they can look like.
Many trafficked victims are female. But what happens when the perpetrator is also female, and was once a victim herself?
Fashion Revolution week puts a spotlight on the modern slavery conditions of the fashion industry and encourages fashion consumers to ask, "who made my clothes."
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, University of Western Australia
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Senior Research Associate, Department of Politics and International Studies; Associate Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Applied Research into Human Trafficking; Senior Research Associate, Jesus College, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Business and Society, University of Bath
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Lecturer in Contemporary Slavery, Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull
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PhD Candidate in Law/Criminology, researching human trafficking and modern slavery in Australia, Flinders University
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Professor & Director, Marine Futures Lab, University of Western Australia
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PhD Candidate and Teacher - RMIT Centre for Global Research & School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Adjunct professor, University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Marketing and Business Ethics, University of Western Australia
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Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, Monash University
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PhD Candidate in Law, University of Western Australia
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Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Social Justice, University of Hull
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Professor in Sustainable Tourism, Wakayama University
