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Includes communities free from torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, or punishment; communities free from (gender-based) violence or exploitation; and communities free from human trafficking, child labour, forced or compulsory labour, debt bondage, prison labour, or other forms of modern slavery.
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The Ethical Trading Initiative has compiled various resources to help you understand how your organisation can contribute to the abolition of modern slavery. The website is arranged into six sub-categories including ETI resources such as blogs and training courses; advocacy pieces such as submissions to the Australian and Canadian Governments; guidance and examples, such as a list of published company statements; existing projects, such as the DOL's Child Labor and Forced Labor Program; background research and reports from the ILO, UN, and more; and reports and case studies from a wide range of industries.
This toolkit was created by GRI and the Responsible Labor Initiative (RLI) to encourage and improve reporting on modern slavery and to support action across the value chain. This toolkit will help change agents to understand why modern slavery has become increasingly important to corporate sustainability reporting, and includes a practical approach for them to report on the issue in alignment with stakeholder expectations. Included are summaries of key slavery-related topics, questions, and concerns; reporting examples; testimonials from reporters and stakeholders; relevant GRI standards guidance; and examples of tools that will facilitate your reporting.
Slavery exists in all stages of procurement, and as supply chains grow and become more complex, it becomes increasingly challenging to ensure freedom, fairness, and safety in the workplace. This resource will help those who want concrete guidance on how to reduce or eliminate the risk of modern slavery occurring in their supply chains. This guide explores effective standards, risk assessments, audits, corrective measures, and practical advice for engaging with suppliers, as well as a comprehensive collection of relevant tools.
GoodWeave is a team of business-minded social change experts and advocates who are dedicated to ending child labor, forced labor, and bonded labor in global supply chains. Their platform and resources will help you to better understand the issue of child labor in global supply chains and to take meaningful, regimented action that addresses the root causes of child labor. We especially recommend their Best Practice Briefs, which will help you to address effective standard setting; perform inspection and monitoring; map out your deep supply chain; engage in effective remediation; and prevent future abuses.
This brief by Re:Structure Lab proposes a set of reforms to address key supply chain auditing challenges. These include increasing NGO, union, and worker-led involvement, as well as addressing financial conflicts of interest between auditors and business.
This comprehensive report can help you to better understand the extent of modern slavery within the global economy, as well as trends related to forced labour and forced marriage. It also provides an overview of key actions required to protect citizens and workers.
Modern slavery is a human rights violation that is alarmingly widespread. This concise guide from UN Global Compact can help you understand the complexities of modern slavery and the role of business in tackling this pervasive issue. The guide provides an overview of five key steps businesses can take to address modern slavery, as well as three steps specifically focused on ending child labour. It concludes with a list of resources to help get you started, as well as a list of key definitions. The guide will be most useful to supply chain managers, sustainability practitioners, and human rights specialists.
Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight in every corner of the world. Walk Free has created several resources - including a report and interactive map - to help you to better understand modern slavery, including definitions, key drivers, how it manifests, and how we are linked to modern slavery through the products and services we buy. The report features regional findings, sector spotlights, and essays, and is a great resource for change agents who are looking for data and information for priming senior leaders.
The National Inquiry’s Final Report is a landmark document that reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people in Canada. This report is comprised of truths and testimonies from family members, survivors of violence, experts, and Knowledge Keepers, and culminates in 231 individual Calls for Justice directed at governments, institutions, social service providers, industries, and all Canadians.
This document will help to familiarise you with Indigenous people's context of multigenerational and intergenerational trauma and marginalisation when engaging with, investing in, and supporting their communities and businesses.
This report from the UN can help you better understand the issue of human trafficking and the role of business in addressing it. The first section provides an overview of what human trafficking is, why it is important to business, and how businesses can prevent it. The second section features a series of case studies that highlight the practical actions companies are taking to fight this abuse.
Although this resource is more than decade old, the good practices outlined remain relevant today for supply chain and sustainability practitioners.
This resource page from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) can help you align your businesses operations with international labour standards on child labour. It provides a brief overview of the issue and acts as a central hub linking to the ILO’s expansive coverage on the topic. These include key resources, ILO publications on eliminating child labour, and relevant webpages and initiatives. These resources will be most useful to sustainability and supply chain management practitioners.
This joint publication from the ILO and UNICEF can help you understand the status of global efforts to end child labour. The report outlines child labour trends around the world, including data that highlights the regions and sectors in which child labour is most prevalent. It explains how COVID-19 has undermined progress on the issue, and provides a range of solutions to prevent further regression and spur improvements. This resource will be most useful to sustainability and supply chain management practitioners.
This joint publication by Shift, The Centre for Child Rights and Business (The Centre), and UNICEF captures some of the key take-aways from a peer-learning session of Shift's Financial Institutions Practitioners Circle (‘FIs Circle’) on the topic of child labour. Drawing on the experience of the three organisations working with real-economy companies and financial institutions, this resource highlights ways for banks to more strategically evaluate and improve portfolio company capacity to address child labour. It explains salient child rights risks for banks and financial institutions and explores three ways in which they can strengthen current approaches to addressing child labour risk in line with the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights: improving screening for indicators of child labour risk, improving engagement with portfolio companies on action on child labour, and participating in multi-stakeholder initiatives that include action on child labour.
This map-based database can help you understand how climate change and climate migration enable different types of human exploitation that fall under the umbrella of “modern slavery." The resource brings together many existing reports, addressing factors that increase vulnerability to modern slavery in the context of climate change. It allows you to explore these reports regionally through an interactive map as well as through six filter options, including “type of modern slavery," “type of migration," and “type of climatic event." This resource can be used to support supply chain risk identification, which will be most useful to supply chain and sustainability practitioners whose organisations' have global sourcing footprints.
This report from Save the Children and The Centre for Child Rights and Business can help you to understand the far-reaching impact that inadequate working conditions and low wages in sourcing countries have on communities and children, as well as the work required to better remediate, mitigate, and prevent child labour violations. It highlights key child rights risks and risk factors in all sectors, such as the lack of child-centered remediation, lack of access to decent employment opportunities for young workers, and education costs and the lack of access to education, as well as sector-specific child rights risks, such as those in manufacturing, agriculture, and mining. It also features recommendations with sector-specific actions. This resource will be especially beneficial to sustainability, procurement, internal audit & risk, and legal & compliance professionals and teams.
This comprehensive report - and interactive map - from the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) can help you to better quantify peace and its benefits, understand the relationships between business, peace, and prosperity, and understand hotspots - both active and potential - for conflict. The report ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators (such as perceptions of criminality, homicide rate, incarceration rate, violent demonstrations, political terror scale, deaths from internal conflicts, and external conflicts fought) that measure the state of peace across three domains: the level of societal safety and security; the extent of ongoing domestic and international conflict; and the degree of militarisation. In addition to discussing the findings from the index map, the report also includes analysis of current conflicts, escalation hotspots and risks assessment, the economic impact of violence, and the role of positive peace in building resilience. This resource will be especially beneficial to risk professionals.
This resource from the Centre for Child Rights and Business can help you to better understand the factors leading to child labour and those affecting remediation outcomes. It highlights statistics and key learnings from child labour cases, explains the links between the development programmes and child labour prevention, and provides a 12-step approach for accelerating progress in eliminating child labour. It also features case stories; updated Due Diligence Principles for Child Labour Prevention and Remediation; information about remediating child labour at scale in agriculture; and more. This resource will be especially beneficial to sustainability change agents, risk management, and legal and compliance professionals.