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Child domestic work: Summary framing paper
December 29, 2021

Child domestic work: Summary framing paper

Situating child domestic work Internationally, ‘child domestic workers’ have been broadly understood to be children and young people under the …

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on modern slavery
December 29, 2021

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on modern slavery

Overview This Policy Brief by the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (Modern Slavery PEC) draws on …

Hidden Harm: Audit Deception in Apparel Supply Chains and the Urgent Case for Reform
December 29, 2021

Hidden Harm: Audit Deception in Apparel Supply Chains and the Urgent Case for Reform

Precis Transparentem’s investigations suggest that audit deception is a pervasive problem in apparel supply chains. At most worksites included in …

Transnational Legal Tactics for Labour: How to make use of Corporate Accountability Mechanism
December 29, 2021

Transnational Legal Tactics for Labour: How to make use of Corporate Accountability Mechanism

Forward The Covid-19 pandemic has sharply exposed the vulnerability of workers in global value chains. Around the world, local and …

December 29, 2021

Trauma-Informed Considerations for Anti-Trafficking Efforts in the COVID-19 Environment, its Aftermath, and in the Context of Possible Future Pandemics

The TIP Office commissioned its Human Trafficking Expert Consultant Network (the Network), which comprises experts particularly with lived experience of …

The Concept of ‘Harbouring’ in the Trafficking of Persons Protocol
December 29, 2021

The Concept of ‘Harbouring’ in the Trafficking of Persons Protocol

Executive Summary This Issue Paper examines the concept of ‘harbouring’ in the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish …

Laundering Cotton: How Xinjiang Cotton is Obscured in International Supply Chains
December 29, 2021

Laundering Cotton: How Xinjiang Cotton is Obscured in International Supply Chains

Laundering Cotton: How Xinjiang Cotton is Obscured in International Supply Chains is an investigation into how forced-labor-produced cotton and cotton-based goods …

Understanding cobalt’s human cost
December 27, 2021

Understanding cobalt’s human cost

Social consequences of green energy must be assessed in addition to environmental impacts, researchers say While driving an electric car …

December 27, 2021

Addressing the social life cycle inventory analysis data gap: Insights from a case study of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Summary Evaluating the human health and well-being effects of emerging technologies is essential. Yet, data to support rigorous evaluation of …

December 27, 2021

RDC: Un nouveau rapport révèle les conditions de travail désastreuses des employés des sous-traitants des mines industrielles de cobalt

Un nouveau rapport révèle des conditions désastreuses, de la discrimination et des salaires extrêmement bas dans les mines industrielles de …