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Dec 21, 2021 · China is engaged in a systematic campaign of repression against predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China, and its actions call for a coordinated response on the part of the United States and its allies.
Jan 27, 2022 · Forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking are endemic issues in global supply chains. A new Stanford project shows how to change a broken system.
Aug 31, 2023 · Governments, companies and civil society should elevate their political and strategic commitment to ending modern slavery by backing a new high-level Global Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking.
In January 2021, the U.S. State Department declared that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was committing genocide against the Muslim ethnic minority Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of...
- ‘Landmark’ Legislation
- Tougher Penalties For Businesses
- A Lack of Support For Victims
The world’s eyes were on the U.K. after the October deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants, though the country has been taking significant steps to tackle human trafficking and modern slavery. The 2019 Global Slavery Index, a country-by-country analysis of the state of modern slavery worldwide conducted by the Walk Free Foundation, placed the U.K. as the...
Earlier this year, the Australian government introduced its own Modern Slavery Act, which similarly requires businesses to publish a statement on the risks of modern slavery in their supply chains. Statements will be available on a publicly available register published by the Australian government. In February, theAustralian Institute of Criminolog...
Experts say that despite the advances of the Modern Slavery Act in the U.K., child victims in particular are being left behind. The Act does not include a system of guardianship for all unaccompanied children in England and Wales, and government austerity measures have reduced access to foster care and mental health services. “It’s not entirely cle...
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Feb 4, 2015 · The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing today on the best way forward in the fight to end modern slavery. Humanity United’s David Abramowitz (pictured above) testified before the committee.
Jul 13, 2020 · Achieving this SDG [Sustainable Development Goal] target 8.7 to end modern slavery and human trafficking is not only a matter of prohibiting slavery in domestic law throughout the world. It is...
