Tackling forced labour in supply chains.

Background

Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.

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Related UKRI funded projects

  • Understanding and Governing the Global Business of Forced Labour

    The overall aim of this research is to achieve an in-depth understanding of how forced labour (and overlapping practices like slavery and human trafficking) operate in global supply chains. In other words, to understand ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to achieve an in-depth understanding of how forced labour operates in global supply chains, which directly addresses the question of tackling forced labour in supply chains.

  • Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Modern Slavery in Global Garment Supply Chains

    Amidst COVID-19, garment supply chains feeding the United Kingdom markets have changed dramatically. As demand for new clothes has plummeted amidst government-imposed lockdowns, brand companies have cancelled orders and ...

    Funded by: SPF

    Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on understanding the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerability to forced labour in garment-producing countries, which is relevant to the question of tackling forced labour in supply chains.

  • Reducing Modern Slavery in the Health Sector's Supply Chains for Personal Protective Equipment

    Our AHRC-funded research on 'Tackling Modern Slavery in Malaysian Medical Gloves Factories Using a Whole-Systems Approach to the Supply Chain' provided robust evidence of forced labour issues in the medical gloves sector...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: Newcastle University

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project directly addresses the issue of forced labour in supply chains, specifically in the health sector, and proposes measures to tackle it.

  • Implications of COVID-19 for modern slavery challenges in supply chain management

    As the devastating and complex impacts of Covid-19 began to emerge across the world, it became clear that the disease did not affect all people equally. People with certain underlying health conditions, the elderly and B...

    Funded by: SPF

    Lead research organisation: University of Liverpool

  • Tackling Modern Slavery in Malaysian Medical Gloves Factories Using a Whole-Systems Approach to the Supply Chain

    This project will identify and implement mechanisms to prevent and remediate modern slavery in the recruitment and employment of workers in the medical gloves sector in Malaysia, where demand for gloves has more than dou...

    Funded by: SPF

    Lead research organisation: Newcastle University

  • Impact of Covid-19 on management to eradicate modern slavery from global supply chains: A case study of Indian fashion supply chains

    Modern slavery describes cases of extreme exploitation of people in economically deprived situations that leave them with no choice but to take any paid job; and often paying an outlandish recruitment fee to secure the p...

    Funded by: SPF

    Lead research organisation: University of Leeds

  • Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Towards Decent Work for All

    The severe labour exploitation encapsulated in terms like 'forced labour', 'bonded labour', 'child labour', 'human trafficking' and 'modern slavery' is widely regarded as a major contemporary development challenge. Indee...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: King's College London

  • Creating a 'Forced Labour Monitoring Group'

    The UK has a Low Pay Commission that is responsible for monitoring, and advising on, National Minimum Wage policy. In November 2008 a Fair Employment Enforcement Board was set up to look at issues of workplace exploitati...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Durham University

  • Sharing Good Practices in Protection of Workers and Victims of Modern Slavery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    The main objective of this project is to conduct evidence-based research on the key impacts of COVID-19 on modern slavery and identify/share good practices in protecting workers and victims of modern slavery in order to ...

    Funded by: SPF

    Lead research organisation: Keele University

  • Harnessing UK trade and investment to address Indo-Pacific modern slavery risks

    Can the UK's trade and investment arrangements in the Indo-Pacific help reduce modern slavery risks? Given the Indo-Pacific is the region with the highest rates of modern, how can UK businesses and investors avoid exposu...

    Funded by: SPF

    Lead research organisation: University of Nottingham