Ed and Harriet’s £45 “This Is What A Feminist Looks Like” sweatshop conditions outrage

CHTCS-Logo-For-SiteFeminist T-shirts proudly worn by Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Harriet Harman are made in ‘sweatshop’ conditions by migrant women paid just 62p an hour, a Daily Mail investigation has revealed. The women machinists on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius sleep 16 to a room – and earn much less than the average wage on the island.

The £45 T-shirts carry the defiant slogan ‘This is what a feminist looks like’. But one of the thousands of machinists declared: ‘We do not see ourselves as feminists. We see ourselves as trapped.’ In this special investigation by the Daily Mail, Ben Ellery reveals exactly what is like for these women.

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs has released a toolkit to assist companies with Human Trafficking issues

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (“ILAB”) has released a toolkit to assist companies in identifying and rooting out forced and child labor in their operations and supply chains. The toolkit sets forth basic elements of an anti-trafficking compliance plan, including conducting risk assessments, developing and implementing a code of conduct, training employees, engaging stakeholders, monitoring compliance and conducting independent audits and reviews.

Federal and state authorities have implemented numerous laws to combat human trafficking, which means that increasingly so, companies must enact and evaluate their current policies to comply with these laws as well as to ensure that their procedures reflect well on a company’s corporate reputation. More than ever, companies are being required to detail efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their direct supply chains in order to comply with both state and federal regulations.

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FLAWED FABRICS: A report about the abuse of girls and women workers in the South Indian textile industry

CHTCS-Logo-For-SiteA new report alleging “modern-day slavery” in five Indian textile mills prompted at least three of the Western retailers — X, Y, and Z — linked to the factories on Tuesday to pledge to take either punitive or remedial action.

X, Y, and Z represent real corporations whose names we removed as a courtesy.

The report, “Flawed Fabrics,” was released by the Center for Research on Multinational Corporations and the India Committee of the Netherlands, two human and labor rights nongovernmental organizations based in the Netherlands, detailing alleged egregious abuses found at Indian textile spinning mills in Tamil Nadu, considered a major hub in the global textile and knitwear industry.

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X BLACKLISTS SPINNING MILL AFTER REPORTS OF CHILD LABOUR ARE REVEALED

CHTCS-Logo-For-SiteX will blacklist a spinning mill in southern India after a report claimed five manufacturers there use child labor and subjected workers, mostly women and girls, to “appalling” working conditions.

X will ban suppliers from using products made by Tamil Nadu-based Y, the Stockholm-based company said Tuesday. A Bangladeshi supplier has used yarn produced at the mill, though X doesn’t have a direct business agreement, spokeswoman Lena Enocson Almroth said in an e-mail. Y was “unwilling to cooperate with X in a transparent way.”

X, Y, and Z represent real corporations whose names we removed as a courtesy.

Most victims of human trafficking enter the US legally, study says

CHTCS-Logo-For-SiteMost victims of human trafficking in the United States arrived in the country with a legal work visa, according to a new report by Northeastern University and the Urban Institute, and later became indentured servants after their immigration papers were taken away by traffickers and recruiters.

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MCCAIN INSTITIUTE ANNOUNCES HUMAN TRAFFICKING ADVISORY COUNCIL

CHTCS-Logo-For-SiteToday the McCain Institute for International Leadership announced the establishment of its Human Trafficking Advisory Council to strengthen the Institute’s strategic efforts to combat human trafficking.

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LexisNexis and STOP THE TRAFFIK launch a new report looking at human trafficking within the cotton industry

CHTCS-Logo-For-SiteLexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of content and technology solutions, and STOP THE TRAFFIK a leading Non-Governmental Organisation dedicated to the eradication of human trafficking, announce the publication of their joint report titled ‘Dressed to Kill’.

Forced labour is unfortunately a very big part of human trafficking. To raise awareness for both consumers and organizations, this report by LexisNexis and STOP THE TRAFFIK is designed to help the cotton industry – as well as the broader public – understand what is happening today and offers guidance on how to take actions to eliminate or reduce the risk.

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SOURCE: LexisNexis

Human Trafficking Laws Get Stricter and Awareness Grows

CHTCS-Logo-For-SiteA leading organization in the fight against human trafficking has ranked New Jersey as one of two states with the nation’s best laws fighting this modern-day slavery.

The report evaluated state laws in 10 categories: labor and sex trafficking; investigative tools; law enforcement training; the presence of a human trafficking task force; the presence of a human trafficking hotline; safe harbor protection for exploited minors; lowered burden of proof for sex trafficking of minors; victim assistance access to civil damages; vacating convictions for sex trafficking victims; and asset forfeiture, which allows victims to receive restitution.

 

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Foreign Policy Magazine takes an in depth look at the U.K. governments efforts on slavery

CHTCS-Logo-For-SiteThere was good reason to celebrate last year when the U.K. government announced that it was launching a new Modern Slavery Bill in response to the slave trade boom. “I believe this is the first time any government has brought together, in a single act, its legislative measures to counter this growing evil,” Home Secretary Theresa May declared. Few would have disagreed with her that slavery is “evil,” but the question of how best to “counter” it proved divisive.

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Despite a Pledge by X, Child Labor Proves Resilient

CHTCS-Logo-For-SiteThe presence of at least three under-age workers at a Shinyang Electronics factory casts a cloud over the labor practices of X and its suppliers.

X, Y, and Z represent real corporations whose names we removed as a courtesy.

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