Pressure from business leaders and a simple legislative process leave few excuses for not introducing rules to combat modern slavery in commercial supply chains.
A sweatshop in Dakar, Bangladesh, where underaged workers make steel consumer goods in hazardous and dangerous circumstances, October 20 2020.
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Informal retailers that dot South Africa's townships have changed dramatically, but at great cost - avoidance of regulation and exploitation of employees.
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.
The victim-offender overlap is disturbingly common in the human trafficking trade, with women once trafficked becoming traffickers.
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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."
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