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The fifth Annual Concordia Summit will focus on Labor Trafficking…
The Summit in New York City, will explore solutions involving global challenges and public-private partnerships. Many of the discussions focused on labor trafficking and the estimated 20.9 million human trafficking victims worldwide. It is estimated that most–68%–are victims of forced labor. Much profit is gained in this crime and at low risk. There were surprisingly only 4,443 global convictions last year.
In her insightful Open Democracy article, Judy Fudge unpacks the growing popularity of forced labor import bans—and urges us to think twice before praising them as an easy fix for exploitation in global supply chains. Forced labor import bans allows customs officials to stop goods at the border if they suspect the supply chain used forced labor. Governments in the global North—including the US, Canada, and Mexico—have embraced them, and the EU is
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