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Name of Resource | The GoodElectronics Network |
Type | Platform for co-operation, Knowledge/information hub |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Good Electronics |
Date of publishing | January 2014 |
Description | The GoodElectronics Network brings together networks, organizations and individuals that are concerned about human rights and sustainability issues in the global electronics supply chain. Members include trade unions, grassroots organizations, campaigning and research organizations, academia and activists. GoodElectronics and its members are not-for-profit only. The programme of the GoodElectronics network aims for three results: civil society organizations, including trade unions, are informed, supported and capacitated to play their role as a countervailing power in the electronics sector in order to empower precarious workers and address corporate abuse, both on the local and international levels; strengthened industrial relations involving trade unions and electronics companies have been established on both global and national levels; meaningful engagement between civil society and electronics companies and other relevant actors along the global electronics supply chain has developed. |
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Name of Resource | The Nexus of Illegal Gold Mining and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains - Lessons from Latin America |
Type | Report/analysis |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Verité |
Date of publishing | July 2016 |
Description | The paper provides analysis of the risk of labour trafficking linked to illegal gold mining in Latin America, drawing upon in-depth field research carried out by Verité in Peru in 2012¬-2013 and in Colombia in 2015, and desk research carried out across the Latin American region. |
Availability | ENG: http://www.verite.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Verite-Report-Illegal_Gold_Mining-2.pdf |
Name of Resource | The Partnership for Freedom |
Type | Platform for co-operation, Advocacy |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | The Partnership for Freedom |
Date of publishing | 2013 |
Description | The Partnership for Freedom is a public-private partnership to spur innovative solutions on human trafficking challenges. To support this mission, the Partnership for Freedom collaborates on a series of three Innovation Challenges to inspire, reward, pilot, and potentially scale constructive solutions to end trafficking and support survivors. The first Challenge, Reimagine: Opportunity, ran from 2013-2014 with the goal of improving the infrastructure of support for survivors of modern slavery in the United States. Winners implemented their projects from 2014-2016; The second Challenge, Rethink Supply Chains, launched in 2015 to surface, support, and share innovative applications of technology to address labour trafficking and exploitation in global supply chains; The third Challenge, Pathways to Freedom, was launched in spring 2017, and challenged local communities to address practices, policies, and perceptions so that every survivor of trafficking receives the respect, support, and opportunities that they deserve. |
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