Australia’s Senate has voted to prohibit the import of goods made using forced labour. But without government support it won’t become law.
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Child sexual abuse and child sex trafficking are serious problems. Misinformation is harming efforts to combat them.
121 companies in Australia have delivered their first reports required by the Modern Slavery Act.
Slavery and slavery-like practices exist in Australia, in the form of forced marriages, sexual exploitation and forced labour.
There are no criminal provisions around slavery in 49% of world nations, groundbreaking new legal research finds.
Airbnb now has 7m listings in more than 100,000 cities, making it larger than the eight biggest hotel groups combined.
Old injustices don’t simply disappear with time – they tear a nation apart.
The prospect of China using forced labour to supply foreign companies highlights the importance of modern slavery laws.
When it comes to tackling unacceptable forms of work, lessons can be learned from the global South.
Bishop Huddleston’s criticism of Enoch Powell’s incendiary “Rivers of blood” speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.
Tens of thousands of North Koreans live in China. Their lives are often no better than they were at home.
And what businesses can do to support them.
Lebanon is host to well over 1m Syrian refugees, and their situation is getting ever more desperate.
Human trafficking is a major source of misery around the world. The absence of reliable statistics to determine its enormity has led to inflated guesstimates that harm efforts to combat the scourge.
The fragmentation of global production has dramatically increased the length and complexity of supply chains. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates that more than…
When Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January this year, she called on business leaders and industry captains to change the dialogue from “what…
Launched amid a considerable level of political hype we finally have the chance to read the new Modern Slavery Bill – promised by the home secretary, Teresa May, in a column in The Sunday Times back in…
The introduction of the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Slavery, Slavery-like Conditions and People Trafficking) Act carries…
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Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool
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Human trafficking and modern slavery researcher, Flinders University
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Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of South Australia
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Professor, ESCP Business School
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Professor of Fourth Industrial Revolution & Global Shifts, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Lecturer in Police Practice | Investigator, University of South Africa
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Rights Lab Associate Director and Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in International Tourism Management, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Bournemouth University
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Postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ERC funded project APARTHEID-STOPS that studies the transnational circulation of anti-apartheid expressive culture., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
