New research from the University of South Australia finds that Australian businesses are ill-prepared for mandatory modern slavery reporting, with more than two-thirds of ASX 100 companies unable to produce a disclosure statement ...
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2019
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With China's western-most province of Xinjiang being turned into a mass internment camp, last night's ABC Four Corners program reported on the Chinese Communist Party's alleged plans to put up to a million detained Uyghurs ...
Social Sciences
Jul 16, 2019
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There's a good chance the device on which you are reading this contains cobalt. It's an essential metal for batteries in phones and laptops. There's also a chance the cobalt was mined by slaves.
Social Sciences
May 2, 2019
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Fashion shouldn't cost lives and it shouldn't cost us our planet. Yet this is what is happening today. Globalization, fast fashion, economies of scale, social media and offshore production have created a perfect storm for ...
Social Sciences
May 2, 2019
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What is the chance the last tin of tuna you ate was made using slave labour? If it came from Thailand, the odds may be a lot higher than you imagine.
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2019
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Modern slavery is a prominent term of late. Thus far, efforts to deal with it have tended to focus on criminality and the explicit imprisonment of people involved. Yet tackling modern slavery in a meaningful sense isn't merely ...
Social Sciences
Nov 8, 2018
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The relationship between climate change, environmental degradation and modern slavery needs to be better understood in order for the interconnected crisis to be tackled, according to a new report.
Ecology
Oct 22, 2018
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When we think of slavery, many of us think of historical or so-called "traditional forms" of slavery – and of the 12m people ripped from their West African homes and shipped across the Atlantic for a lifetime in the plantations ...
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2018
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Workers in most hand car washes in the UK are subject to some form of labour exploitation—such as excessively long hours or exceptionally low pay, according to a new report out today on Anti-Slavery Day (18 October).
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2018
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You're about to make a sandwich with canned albacore tuna today, and thinking that it's all a good thing—nutritionists talk about the health benefits of eating more seafood, after all. One thing you probably didn't think ...
Environment
Oct 12, 2018
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