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Name of Resource | 25. Harvesting the future: Piloting the USDA's Guidelines for Eliminating Child and Forced Labor in Agricultural Supply Chains |
Type | Report/analysis |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Enacting authority | Department of Labor, Nestlé, Olam, Balsu |
Entry into force / date of approval | June 2018 |
Description | This report provides an analysis on Nestlé, the world’s largest food and beverage company, and its two hazelnut suppliers in Turkey, Olam and Balsu, as it pilot-tested the United States Department of Agriculture Guidelines for Eliminating Child Labor and Forced Labor in Agricultural Supply Chains (USDA Guidelines) in Turkey’s hazelnut supply chain. This project was a partnership between the three companies and the Fair Labor Association, funded by the United States Department of Labor. Hazelnuts are grown in the Black Sea region of Turkey. In the summer, tens of thousands of seasonal migrant workers, mostly from the Southeast region bordering Syria, travel across the country to harvest hazelnuts for 30-45 days. Children often work alongside their parents in the hazelnut gardens. |
Availability | ENG: https://www.fairlabor.org/sites/default/files/documents/reports/harvesting_the_future_june_2018.pdf |
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Name of Resource | 26. Anti-Trafficking Risk Management Best Practices & Mitigation Considerations Memorandum |
Type | Guidance on policy / legislation implementation |
Country / jurisdiction | United States of America |
Enacting authority | Office of Management and Budget |
Entry into force / date of approval | 21 October 2019 |
Description | The purpose of this memorandum is to enhance the effectiveness of anti-trafficking requirements in Federal acquisition, while helping contractors manage and reduce the burden associated with meeting these responsibilities. To achieve these dual goals, this memorandum describes anti-trafficking risk management best practices and mitigation considerations for acquisition officials and agency trafficking experts to take into account when working with the agency's contractors in order to address their obligations. |
Availability | ENG: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/M-20-01.pdf |
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Name of Resource | 27. Maritime Security and Fisheries Enforcement (SAFE) Act |
Type | Legislation |
Country / jurisdiction | United States of America |
Enacting authority | Congress |
Entry into force / date of approval | 20 December 2019 |
Description | The Maritime SAFE Act, Sections 3531-3563 of the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2020 (P.L. 116-92), adds to and strengthens responses of the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce, and of the U.S. Coast Guard, to illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and related transnational organized crimes (including trafficking in persons). The Act provides for the Secretary of State, in consultation with Commerce and the Coast Guard, to deliver assistance, as appropriate, for law enforcement training in priority regions and states and capacity building for IUU fishing, customs and border security officials to conduct investigations and prosecutions. The act establishes a federal interagency working group on IUU fishing; and in a series of provisions under the subtitle “Combating Human Trafficking in Connection with the Catching and Processing of Seafood Products,” and adds the Secretary of Commerce to the President’s Interagency Task Force on Trafficking in Persons and requires a report to Congress on human trafficking, including forced labour, in the supply chains of seafood products imported into the United States. |
Availability | ENG: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1269/text |
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