Check out this article from The Guardian that discusses challenges that stakeholders face when addressing child labor and child slavery. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/nov/24/child-labour-what-can-we-do-africa-modern-slavery #childlabor #slavery #supplychains

While those of us in the United States prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, we are reminded of the exploitation of the vulnerable around the world. Thank you to our friends at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre for bring our attention to the report linked below that concerns purported child labor in Romania. Children as young as six are reported to work making toys for Kinder Eggs in conditions that have been characterized as "child slavery." article #slavery #childlab

There are numerous challenges with respect to the eradication of slavery from international chains of commerce. Thus, no one knows exactly how many persons are enslaved in some aspect of international commerce. In addition, although slavery is known to exist in the supply chains of numerous products, the presence of slave-tainted material in any particular end product is unknown. For example, we know that some gold is mined by slaves, but slave-mined gold is thought to be a t