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The Biden administration is funding a $4 million project to determine a connection between child labor and climate change in the South Asian country of Nepal. The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday announced the availability of $4 million in federal taxpayer dollars to be released through its Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) “to…
Be Slavery Free (beslaveryfree.com) has a new awesome resource… a weekly podcast! We have more enslaved people in the world now than any other point in human history. It’s called Modern Slavery, but slavery has been around for a long time. The trade is in people but the currency is hope. Stories and history, laws…
Last week marked the first anniversary of the enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) in the United States on 21 June. This law takes sweeping measures to address corporate profiteering from Uyghur forced labour, by banning all companies from importing goods tainted with Uyghur forced labour. It has the potential to be…
50 million people are living in conditions of modern slavery — a 25% rise over the last five years, says a new report. According to it, the Group of 20 nations are contributing to this increase, as their trade operations and global supply chains allow for human rights abuses. Among the G20 nations, India tops the…
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States in 1865, with one exception: compulsory labor in prisons. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States,” it reads. Nearly 160 years later, the United States is one of…
The phrase “just transition” is on everybody’s lips in the aftermath of COP27, but in the race toward cleaner energy, are we losing sight of what justice really looks like? A closer look at solar panel and electric transport supply chains suggest we may be sidelining human rights as we scale up solutions to the…
I was hugely disappointed to hear of the snubbing of Greener Basingstoke by council leader Simon Bound and his cabinet member for environment Hayley Eachus. Greener Basingstoke’s Climate and Ecological Town Hall Meeting was a wake-up call for Basingstoke and Deane. The excuse offered was laughable: that it had “become politicised by one political party”….
7 November 2022 Image credit: Thammachak Sotiya, via Shutterstock. This year we have seen the devastating impact on human lives by environmental events, amplified by climate change, such as the floods in Pakistan and devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, caused by five years of lack of rain. We know that in many cases…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced updated and new tools designed to eliminate child and forced labor worldwide by detailing the scope and potential sources of the problems, and providing guidance to those combating them. The department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs has published the 10th edition of its “List of Goods…
The number of people in modern slavery has risen significantly in the last five years. 10 million more people were in modern slavery in 2021 compared to 2016 global estimates. Women and children remain disproportionately vulnerable. Modern slavery also occurs in almost every country in the world, and cuts across ethnic, cultural and religious lines….
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