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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMandatory transparency, discretionary disclosureNew transparency regulations in some places theoretically require companies to report on forced labour in their...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryVoices from the supply chain: an interview with Cathy FeingoldAt this year's International Labour Conference, BTS interviewed US labour leader Cathy Feingold.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA proposal for transnational supply chain labour regulationSupply chains without international cooperation will never work, but an international average minimum wage backed up...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySaving the children with songs and light refreshmentsIf the conversation at the ILO's ‘high level panel discussion on child labour’ had lived up to its name the world...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery#ILC2016: What happened? What’s next?This year’s International Labour Conference could represent a turning point in the struggle to regulate global supply chains.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAll about the moneyA commonly overlooked but very simple mechanism for promoting decent work in global supply chains is to improve the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPromoting decent work in supply chains? An interview with Benjamin SelwynGovernments, business leaders and labour unions are gathering to discuss decent work in global supply chains. We...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDecent work in a globalised world? Week one at the International Labour Conference and the supply chains dilemmaWeek one of #ILC2016 has finished with workers and employers divided. What are the prospects for the all-important...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe Apple way to make products: a response to Apple’s 10th ‘supplier responsibility progress report’Apple is among the world’s largest companies and has a supply chain to match, but does its claim to be strict on...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryState-led forced labour in the cotton industryUzbekistan and Turkmenistan, both vital nodes in the textile industry's supply chain, compel citizens to pick...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryGlobal supply chains: time for a new deal?Decades of voluntary corporate social responsibility initiatives have failed to deliver living wages, safe...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThis summer at the ILC, let’s think biggerThis International Labour Conference opens an overdue discussion on work in supply chains. If we want to go beyond...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryGlobal supply chains: what does labour want?For the workers of the world, global supply chains are not and cannot be sustainable unless they are based on the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe ILO report on ‘decent work in global supply chains’ - much ado about nothing?The background report for the International Labour Conference 2016 raises important questions about supply chain...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBTS explainer: what is the International Labour Conference?This will be the 105th session of the International Labour Conference, but how many people know what it is and why...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMaking supply chains work for workers? The 2016 International Labour Conference and beyondEmployers, worker’s organisations and politicians are gathering to discuss decent work in global supply chains. BTS...
