Director of Programs, Vera Belazelkoska presents at the Thomson Reuters Stop Slavery Now Summit.
The Labour Rights Project (LRP), a Global Affairs Canada-funded initiative, was launched to enhance worker voice and improve the detection and management of labour rights risks in the cocoa and oil palm sectors of Ghana and the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire. The...
Palm oil’s story has always been complicated, and the commodity’s no stranger to controversy. In Malaysia alone, a 2022 SUHAKAM assessment found that 8 in every 1,000 plantation workers were subject to forced labour. The scale of the challenge is immense: Indonesia’s...
According to the International Labor Organisation, forced labor generates around $236bn in illegal profits each year. Behind those profits are workers who suffer because their rights are denied. As trade policies work to bring industries back to US soil, the result...
