Businesses today are facing tough decisions on how to protect their financial viability, serve rapidly changing customer needs, and protect their workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter the landscape of the global workforce, forcing millions of vulnerable workers out of work and requiring businesses to make quick and difficult decisions on retaining their workforce and supporting their supply chains through the crisis.
GBCAT urges companies to protect workforces against modern slavery risks when responding to COVID-19
Three Ways Business is Combating Modern Slavery
It may come as a surprise to many people that slavery, forced labor, and human trafficking continue to be critical issues for business in the twenty-first century: there are over 40.3 million people globally that are victims of modern slavery today, and at least 16 million of them are being exploited in the private sector in conditions of forced labor.
Jobs Must Be Part of the Solution to Human Trafficking
Human trafficking doesn’t just happen in faraway places like India’s brick kilns or Cambodia’s brothels. Over 8,500 victims of human trafficking cases were reported in the United States last year, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. There is no greater blow to human dignity than a person being forced to perform work or sex acts against their will.
GBCAT Advisor Mark Lagon Quoted in CNN Article
Amb. Mark Lagon was quoted in a recent CNN article on an anti-sex-trafficking bill.
Please read the article here.