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| | | ... there are 168 million children aged between 5 and 17 years engaged in child labour and over 20 million victims of forced labour - and more likely to occur in the Asia-Pacific region than anywhere else, a region that includes Australia's largest trading ... |
| | | | ... report grades 114 companies from A to F, based on the "strength of their systems to mitigate against the risks of forced labour, child labour and exploitation in their supply chains." "One of the big shifts since 2013 has been the increased willingness ... |
| | | | ... consider ways in which Australia could combat the growing problem of modern slavery which includes practices such as forced labour, child labour and debt bondage. The report ' Hidden in Plain Sight ' offers a number of recommendations and with bipartisan ... |
| | | | ... creation of a reporting regime. ACSI supports the definition of modern slavery, which includes "slavery, servitude, forced labour, debt bondage and deceptive recruiting for labour or services," as well as the proposed threshold of $100- million in revenue. ... |
| | | | ... companies' behaviours has been tightened up on the criteria related to the elimination of the worst forms of child and forced labour; information to customers (labelling and marketing.). In the governance domain, Vigeo Eiris examines companies' strategy ... |
| | | | ... industry ' We had slavery in our supply chains'. Fortescue used direct action as the strategy to weed out instances of forced labour practices in its suppliers. Problems in at least 12 of Fortescue's suppliers were identified and driven out of the chains ... |
| | | | ... inquiry, which will focus on seven terms of reference: The nature and extent of modern slavery (including slavery, forced labour and wage exploitation, involuntary servitude, debt bondage, human trafficking, forced marriage and other slavery-like exploitation) ... |
| | | | ... and stakeholder awareness and demand, such as in sweat shops and safety black swan events in apparel; migrant and forced labour in food, and biodiversity impacts in paper and timber," Jeyaretnam said. "In other sectors there have been international industry ... |
| | | | Forced labour, child labour and exploitation are "significant problems" in the supply chain of the electronics industry, according to the 2016 Electronics Industry Trends report published by Baptist World Aid and Not For Sale. In their second report ... |
| | | | ... "There are also additional voluntary actions to promote and advance human rights. They include collective bargaining, forced labour and non-discrimination. It is a voluntary initiative, but one that is growing. Our companies are required to report. It's ... |
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