Posts Tagged ‘slave labour’
Threads of Hope
On April 24, 2013 the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed killing 1,134 garment workers and injuring more than 2,500 others. In the rubble of the building rescuers found labels for brands of clothing destined for Australia and other countries all around the world. At the time Pope Francis denounced as “slave labor” the…
Read MoreServitude or Service?
Service or Servitude: A Study of Trafficking for Domestic Work in Australia by Heather Moore is the first report to analyse 30+ cases of domestic servitude in Australia. The report compiles new and existing information from a range of sources, including national and international data on domestic work and migration, current government statistics and personal accounts…
Read MoreStop Trafficking!
The latest issue of Stop Trafficking! examines the relationship between cobalt mining abuses to the demand for cobalt in green energy uses. Articles include: Electric Cars, Smartphones and Slave Labour, The Cobalt Supply Chain, The Cobalt Industry Must Become and Advocate for its Workers and Advocacy for Children Trapped in Labour Trafficking. Download the November 2018…
Read MoreSlavery in Supply Chains
Do You Know Where Your Clothes Come From? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvVlFJvHB-k Walk Free has produced this video clip to inform consumers about the power they have to make a difference. Demanding cheaper goods can fuel the demand for slave labour. What choices will you make in the future?
Read MoreJudges Summit on Human Trafficking
Opening New Paths of Justice In June 2016 a summit was held in the Vatican. Over a hundred judges, magistrates, prosecutors, and representatives of legal organizations from some 20 different countries gathered to share best practice from their experiences of working to fight trafficking, slave labour and the trade in human organs. The event was organized…
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Pope Francis Addresses Summit The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences held a two day conference on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime. the conference was attended by judges and prosecutors from around the world. In addressing the conference Pope Francis urged the participants “to fulfill their vocation and their crucial mission — to establish justice — without…
Read MoreSupermarket Supply Chains
Slavery in the Thai Fishing Industry An investigation conducted by The Guardian has revealed that some major supermarkets are using suppliers that rely on slave labour. Prawns may be cheap to buy in supermarkets but the human cost of bringing them to supermarket shelves is unimaginable. The long complex supply chain from boat to supermarket…
Read MoreIs your Easter Egg Slavery Free
FAIRTRADE Easter Eggs Much of the world’s chocolate is produced using cocoa beans that have been harvested by trafficked children or forced labour. The West African countries of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are two of the largest producers and exporters of cocoa in the world. The most recent figures estimate that 1.8 million children in…
Read MoreEliminate Child Labour
World Day Against Child Labour – June 12 A 9-year-old girl toils under the hot sun, making bricks from morning to night, seven days a week. She was trafficked with her entire family from Bihar, one of the poorest and most underdeveloped states in India, and sold to the owner of a brick-making factory. With…
Read MorePublic Meeting on Trafficking in Melbourne
Want to help trafficked people? Don’t know how to? ACRATH is holding a public meeting in Melbourne on Monday 30th May 2011. Come along and increase your awareness of this issue. For more information click here.
Read MoreBuilding Bridges to Freedom
The Interfaith Movement to End Slavery At a conference hosted by the US Embassy to the Holy See and St Thomas University, a minister, a rabbi and a catholic nun spoke of their passion to see an end to modern slavery. Rev. David Schilling, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, Rabbis for Human…
Read MoreRole of Corporations in Fighting Human Trafficking
Corporations can be Unknowingly Facilitating Modern Day Slavery On 18 May 2011 at a conference on modern day slavery organised by the Us Embassy to the Holy See, the U.S. ambassador-at-large to combat human trafficking, Luis CdeBaca, spoke on the necessary involvement of consumers and corporations in the fight against human trafficking. It is important…
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