By Vera Belazelkoska, Ulula Organizations chart their own path to creating the systems, culture and processes to incorporate worker voice into their social risk considerations and decisions. Last month’s worker voice piece by SupplyShift highlighted the change...
Over the past decade, the conflict in Congo – and its ensuing effects in the Great Lakes region – have raised international concerns that mineral extraction activities are directly or indirectly responsible for financing conflict in eastern Congo. In...
By Laura Haworth, Head of Social Research & UK Operations, SupplyShift Following over 10 years of successful social auditing through which issues within the supply chain have been uncovered in the tens of thousands, the ethical trade industry has increasingly...
This post is the first of three blogs within SupplyShift and Ulula’s ‘Worker Voice’ series. Check back next month for part two. SupplyShift is now partnering with Ulula to offer clients worker voice tools to engage those throughout the supply chain. Reach out to us...
This blog post first appeared on The Freedom Fund’s blog on February 5, 2018. Click here for the original. The scourge of modern slavery entrapping over 40 million people around the world underscores the need for more radical and innovative approaches to...
There are 40.3 million modern day slaves in the world today, more than there have even been in the history of humanity. However, they remain largely invisible, hidden in places of forced work, sexual exploitation, or forced marriage (forced domestic labour). There are...
