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Category: Supply Chain
Winning a campaign before it even begins – the power of preemptive persuasion
We have just made an impact even before our supporters had a chance to get involved! More often than not, campaigning is the only way [...]
So you’ve watched Seaspiracy — now what?
Boycotting fish may look like a simple answer, but it is too narrow a response to be an effective solution to the issues raised in the [...]
Acting against state-imposed forced labor at the UN Global Compact U.K.
Freedom United’s Executive Director, Joanna Ewart-James, spoke at the UN Global Compact Network U.K.’s Business & Human [...]
Joint civil society monitoring finds systemic forced labor in Turkmenistan cotton harvest
A new joint report by leading independent Turkmen human rights groups exposes systemic forced labor during the 2020 cotton harvest in [...]
EU Parliament backs corporate accountability, but law can be strengthened
On March 10, 2021, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new EU law — 504 in favor, 79 against, and 112 [...]
Urging investors to call on P&G to act on tainted palm oil
Yesterday, investors in global consumer goods company Proctor and Gamble (P&G) received a brief in which Freedom United highlights [...]
US Customs and Border Protection bans palm oil imports
On September 30, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced a ban on palm oil imported from FGV Holdings Berhad (FGV) — one of [...]
Mobilizing consumers to push Boohoo to #GoTransparent
In recent weeks fast-fashion company Boohoo has come under fire for labor abuses allegedly occurring in their suppliers’ factories in [...]
“What is happening in my homeland is cultural genocide”
Uyghur activist Rahima Mahmut shares how the Chinese government’s repressive system of forced labor in the Uyghur Region has [...]
Pioneering a Path to Slavery-Free Chocolate
Much of the work in the anti-slavery movement has been directed at convincing businesses fixated on profits to investigate (and [...]