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Global Slavery Index 2023
- Walk Free

Provides national estimates of modern slavery for 160 countries, drawing on thousands of interviews with survivors collected through nationally representative household surveys across 75 countries and assessments of national-level vulnerability.

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The Global Commission Report

No country is immune: together to end modern slavery & human trafficking

Flagship report from the Global Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking highlighting the state of the issue, key vulnerabilities, and recommendations for UN member states, businesses, and civil society.

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The Corporate Transparency Act

Under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which went into effect on January 1, 2024, many U.S. small business owners are required to file corporate transparency reports with beneficial ownership information. The purpose of the law is to promote businesses’ respect for human rights and decent working conditions in their own operations, with their suppliers and business partners.

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Fashion Transparency Index

There are eight annual editions of the Fashion Transparency Index. In 2023, 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and retailers were reviewed and ranked according to what information they disclose about their social and environmental policies, practices and impacts, in their operations and supply chain.

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Fashion Revolution Report

What Fuels Fashion? 2025

The second edition of What Fuels Fashion? ranks 200 of the world’s largest fashion brands on disclosure of their climate and energy-related policies, practices and impacts in their own operations & supply chains. Brands are scored on how transparent they are across five critical areas: Accountability, Decarbonisation, Energy Procurement, Financing Decarbonisation, Just Transition & Advocacy.

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Assessing The Case For A Global Commission On Modern Slavery And Human Trafficking

A scoping study conducted by The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre, commissioned by the Office of Theresa May, to examine the case for establishing a Global Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking.

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Climate Protest

Climate Change, Migration And Vulnerability To Trafficking

Report from the International Institute for Environment and Development, includes helpful visual diagrams to understand these relationships.

- iied 2022

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Group Hug

Slavery Footprint

Find out how many slaves work for you and see country-by-country statistics on the consumption of various products with a high risk of being made with forced labor.

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Global Estimates Of
Modern Slavery:

Forced Labour And Forced Marriage 2022
- ILO, IOM, Walk Free

Report covering current global estimates of forced labor and forced marriage as of 2021, as well as trends over time, context, and breakdown by type of modern slavery, region of the world, and gender.

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Global Report On
Trafficking In Persons 2024

- UNODC

2024 report on human trafficking from the United Nations Office

on Drugs and Crime.

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The Impact of Disasters and Crises on Agriculture and Food Security - FAO 2021

Crop Failure and related job loss/food security are key forces that drive people into modern slavery. This report explores how climate change and environmental disasters are often the first step in this chain reaction.

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Desert

Groundswell: Preparing For Internal Climate Migration

- World Bank 2018

Climate migration is, and will increasingly be, a driving force behind modern slavery and human trafficking. This report, which focuses on three regions—Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America—finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050.

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Climate Protest

Groundswell Part 2: Acting On Internal Climate Migration

International Bank For Reconstruction And Development & The World Bank 2021

This sequel to the Groundswell report includes projections and analysis of internal climate migration for three new regions: East Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

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No Identity, No Protection:

How Lack Of Identity Documents Drives Exploitation And Modern Slavery - The Freedom Fund 2024

Without legal identity, people struggle to access basic services and are often driven into informal, dangerous and exploitative work.

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Migrants And Their Vulnerability To Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery And Forced Labour

- IOM UN Migration 2019

This report examines the issue of migration’s link to modern slavery by geographic region, identity demographics, and potential solutions.

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Waste Disposal Site

Global Waste Management Outlook 2024

- UN Environment Programme

Learn more about where our products — especially those that are commonly overconsumed because of their cheap prices maintained by forced labor — end up after they are discarded.

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Design For Freedom

International Guidance and Toolkit
- Grace Farms 2024

Provides resources that built environment professionals can use to prioritize ethical supply chains and integrate the three Design for Freedom Principles: Find and Address Embedded Forced Labor, Pursue Ethical Decarbonization, Prioritize Circularity.

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Flood

Building Materials and The Climate: Constructing a New Future - UNEP 2023

Explores the environmental impacts of the built environment sector and highlights the pressing need to establish innovative cooperation models to decarbonize building materials.

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Fashion’s Tiny Hidden Secret

- UNEP 2019

Explores the fashion industry’s contribution to environmental degradation and resource exploitation.

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2024 Trafficking In Persons Report

2024 human trafficking report from the U.S. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

- U.S. Department Of State

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Cotton Crop

2024 Observance of
Recruitment And Working Conditions In The Cotton
Harvest In Turkmenistan - ILO

The findings in this report highlight both the progress made in recent years and the areas requiring further improvement

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Fishing Net

Understanding Working Conditions Of Fishers In Indonesia

Evidence From The 2024 Survey On Decent Work In Marine Fishing - ILO

Presents the findings of Indonesia’s first-ever Survey on Decent Work in Marine Fishing, conducted by the ILO in collaboration with the Research Center for Population of the National Research and Innovation Agency (PRK-BRIN)

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Cotton Plant

Mapping Of The Cotton Supply Chain At The Community Level In Pakistan:

A Report On Selected Districts In Punjab And Sindh Provinces - ILO

This report seeks to better understand the status of fundamental principles and rights at work and the socio-economic context in the cotton producing communities in selected areas of Punjab and Sindh Provinces.

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