Posts Tagged ‘contemporary slavery’
Enforcing Accountability of States & Businesses in Supply Chains
Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery At the UN General Assembly on 8th July 2015 the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Urmila Bhoola, presented a report in which she provided a thematic study on enforcing the accountability of States and businesses for preventing, mitigating and redressing contemporary forms of slavery in…
Read MoreSlavery is Slavery!
UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Gulnara Shahinian, reported in The Guardian recently that she has often been asked to avoid using the word slavery because of the meaning and implication this word carries. She writes ” Yet what other word describes people who have been beaten…
Read More