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Hard to imagine that human trafficking and slavery still exists today, and yet they do. Here's a look legal developments in the important fight against what President Barack Obama has described as "one... more +

The Surprising Ways Your Company Can Be Liable for Human Trafficking – And 4 Steps to Minimize Dangers

Fisher Phillips on 5/29/2025

The phrase alone – human trafficking – is enough to stir outrage, discomfort, or disbelief. What many employers may not realize, however, is that you do not have to be a “trafficker” to be held liable for trafficking....more

Supply Chains Under Scrutiny: Targeting Human Rights and Forced Labor Risks

NAVEX on 10/13/2020

This summer, one of the UK’s best-known online brands found its supply chain at the center of a high-profile modern slavery investigation. Within hours of the story breaking the company’s share price plummeted, as...more

Compliance Perspectives: Supply Chains, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 1/2/2020

Matthew Friedman is the CEO of The Mekong Club, an organization supporting the private sector in the fight against modern slavery. Previously he worked for the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking and US...more

Supply chain mapping and the transparency wave of the future

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 10/14/2019

On Oct. 1, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced withhold release orders covering five imported products from five countries. The companies, ranging from apparel producers in Asia to conflict mineral miners in...more

Modern Slavery: The Dilemma of Internal Accountability and Resource Allocation

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/6/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: This is the third in a series of blogs by our Global Modern Slavery Team dealing with how companies can get ahead of the curve of the changing legal landscape addressing the role of business and its...more

New Anti-Trafficking Legislation May Spur Closer Look at Manufacturers’ Supply Chains

Foley Hoag LLP - Global Business and Human... on 10/1/2018

On September 26, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations approved the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 2200). The bill would reauthorize the Trafficking...more

Modern Slavery Bill 2018: An Action Plan

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/28/2018

The introduction of the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Bill 2018 on 28 June 2018 sets an imperative for businesses operating in Australia to know, and show, how they are identifying and addressing the risks of modern slavery....more

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