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Benchmark Reports from KnowTheChain
Benchmarks can play a powerful role in encouraging companies to uphold labor standards and protect workers’ rights. In 2016 [...]
Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour
The study investigates the underlying factors that drive forced labour, of which a major one is illegal profits. Figures include a [...]
Tackling Modern Slavery in Supply Chains
Of the 45.8 million people estimated by the Global Slavery Index to be enslaved worldwide, the majority are victims of exploitation in [...]
Immokalee: A Story of Freedom
A look at the history of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, focusing on the successful Taco Bell boycott. CIW is a community-based [...]
Slavery: A Global Investigation
True Vision of London produced this 80-minute documentary inspired by the book Disposable People. Filmmakers Brian Edwards and Kate [...]
The Dark Side of Chocolate
While we enjoy the sweet taste of chocolate, the reality is strikingly different for African children. In 2001 consumers around the [...]
Forced Labor
Two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, over twelve million people continue to be subjected to modern forms [...]
Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
Life Interrupted introduces us to survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to get by and make homes for themselves in the [...]
Ethical Shopping: Where to Shop, What to Buy and What to Do to Make a Difference
How ethical are Nokia, Gap, Nike and The Body Shop? There is growing consumer concern about the conditions under which employees in [...]
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who [...]
Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide and the Secret to Saving the World
A leading expert on modern-day slavery, Kevin Bales has traveled to some of the world’s most dangerous places documenting and battling [...]