On 11 January Beyond Slavery and Trafficking launched an online policy debate exploring the practical effects of human trafficking awareness campaigns. This debate is not yet complete, and now waits on your responses.
Frank Field, Labour MP for Birkenhead and a driving force at the heart of the Modern Slavery bill, gives a first-person account of how the whole campaign began.
New transparency regulations in some places theoretically require companies to report on forced labour in their supply chains, but a new review finds that's not what's happening.
The scholarly work backing a Dutch board's recommendation to ban all foreign adoptions has been attacked as 'unscientific'. Does that argument hold water?
Companies, especially since the crisis, make the case that advances in workers’ rights lessen the competitiveness of an economy. Should we believe them?
The myth of ‘Irish slaves’ and of an ‘equality of suffering’ between enslaved Africans and white Europeans has gone mainstream, appearing everywhere to legitimate racism and to undermine black rights struggles.
Companies haven’t earned our trust when it comes to protecting workers’ rights, so why do states give them the benefit of doubt?
Workers can beat big business when they come together, but the fight would certainly be easier if the state were generally on their side.
The state is the only force large enough to defend workers’ rights from big business, so why is it so often batting for the wrong team?
The UK’s Modern Slavery Act was meant to put Britain at the forefront of the fight against modern slavery, but its focus on prosecution does little to help the vulnerable.
Migrant domestic workers are often amongst the least protected workers in the economy. But what protection opportunities open if we consider them part of the ‘care supply chain’?
Enforcement of labour protections will remain an issue, but there's still a reason to require corporate due diligence on forced labour in supply chains.
