121 companies in Australia have delivered their first reports required by the Modern Slavery Act.
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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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