[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][ct_goal]While we and our partner, Rainforest Action Network, commends PepsiCo for making a public commitment against forced labor in its supply chain, we call on the company to commit to 100% independent traceability of all use of palm oil[/ct_goal][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][ct_summary]Considering reports of forced labor in Malaysia and Indonesia, there was an urgent need for immediate enforcement, […]
Victory category: Forced Labor
Forced Labor in Uzbek Cotton Harvest
To encourage the World Bank to use its leverage with the government of Uzbekistan by suspending loans to companies in the World-Bank-funded project areas that use forced labor and that persecute human rights defenders. There had been a long-running effort by the Cotton Campaign to end forced labor in the Uzbek cotton industry.
Publix Super Markets and the Fair Food Program
[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][ct_goal]To convince Publix Super Markets to sign the Fair Food Program, guaranteeing that tomatoes sold in their stores are slavery-free.[/ct_goal][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][ct_summary]The Fair Food Program is working to enforce a policy of zero tolerance for slavery on tomato farms, fighting against large farms where countless workers are held against their will, threatened with violence, forced […]
Wendy’s and the Fair Food Program
[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][ct_goal]To convince Wendy’s to sign the Fair Food Program, thus joining McDonald’s, Subway, Burger King, and Taco Bell. Together, they would create immense purchasing power to ensure that modern slavery does not exist in the supply chains of the tomato industry.[/ct_goal][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][ct_summary]Forced labor and exploitation of workers on Florida’s tomato farms has long been […]
Support for Abused Migrant Workers (Philippines)
[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][ct_goal]To ensure that abused migrant Filipino workers who have escaped slavery and approached their embassy in Singapore, Taiwan, and Bahrain get the support that they need.[/ct_goal][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][ct_summary]What would you do if you were an abused migrant worker? Who could you turn to for support abroad? What would you do if your own country couldn’t help […]
Modern Slavery in UN Sustainable Development Goals
To call on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to prioritize the abolition of slavery in the Sustainable Development Goals, a document which other countries will be encouraged to sign. At the start of the Sustainable Development Goals process, ending modern slavery was not a clear priority.
Addressing Conflict Mineral Abuses (EU)
To ensure that the European Parliament show stronger leadership in the fight to end the unacceptable abuses fueled by conflict minerals by calling for European companies to be required to check their supply chains to help end the trade in conflict minerals, rather than the adoption of a voluntary scheme.
Transparency in Supply Chains (England, Wales)
[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][ct_goal]To secure the inclusion of a provision that requires corporate action in the Modern Slavery Act. [/ct_goal][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][ct_summary]After the government first expressed its commitment to a Modern Slavery Bill, we launched the first campaign to call for the inclusion of corporate action. When the bill was initially introduced by the government, it didn’t include […]
Legislation to Protect Fishing Industry Workers (NZ)
Goal: In partnership with Slave Free Seas, www.slavefreeseas.org, we urge New Zealand to pass the Fisheries Bill (Foreign Charter Vessels and Other Matters), to extend labor protections to workers on foreign charter vessels in New Zealand waters by requiring them to be flagged to New Zealand. Summary: “I was a slave, but then I became useless…so […]
Ratify a Strong Global Law to Fight Forced Labor
[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][ct_goal]To secure the wide adoption of the new international law on forced labor by national governments. It is called the Protocol to ILO Convention 29 also known as the Forced Labor Protocol.[/ct_goal][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][ct_summary]This campaign seeks to gather public support in individual countries for the respective labor minister to adopt this new law. At the time […]