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| | | ... 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 ... |
| | | | ... Conference. Philipp Aeby chief executive officer of RepRisk, said that there is increased concerns around child and forced labour and human rights violations at companies. RepRisk provides a comprehensive database on ESG risks by analysing facts, criticism ... |
| | | | ... companies have disclosed their supply chain LHR policy and only 30% of companies disclose their child labour and forced labour policies. ACSI found that imports from some LDCs have increased in significant percentages between 2006 and 2012 - imports ... |
| | | | ... across all sectors. The least widely protected labour and human rights standards are those for child labour and forced labour, achieving average disclosure of 14% and 13% respectively. Many companies did not formally extend their policies to part-time ... |
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