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Cindy Berman is the head of ‘knowledge & learning’ at the Ethical Trading Initiative. She leads ETI’s training, monitoring, research and evaluation department, as well as its work on modern slavery and labour exploitation. Prior to joining ETI in 2014, she spent 10 years at the UK Department for International Development as a senior social development advisor, working in Asia and Africa on global and regional policy and programmes. In this role she led a £10m, five-year programme on prevention of human trafficking of women and girls from South Asia and the Middle East in domestic work and the garment sector. Cindy has worked on human rights, gender equality and social justice issues throughout her career in different organisations and countries. She has held positions at the United Nations, the ILO, the UK National Health Service, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and a number of civil society organisations. She is from South Africa, and after completing university there she worked in national and community-based organisations in the struggle against apartheid before coming to the UK.
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