by Rebecca Jun | Dec 12, 2019 | Advocacy, Articles, Legal Blog
By: REBECCA JUN During this holiday season, every purchase will have a rippling effect. While bringing happiness to the gift receiver, purchases have the power to also empower or harm the gift producer. The Power of Purchase According to the International Labour...
by Margaret Roggensack | Sep 23, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: MARGARET ROGGENSACK Forced labor is endemic in today’s global supply chain. The International Labor Organization estimates that as of 2016, there were 24.9 million victims of forced labor.1 The Department of Labor’s most recent “List of Goods Produced by Child...
by Meghan Poole | Jan 24, 2019 | Articles, Case Law, Legal Blog
By: MEGHAN POOLE Human Trafficking is commonly described as a crime that is hidden in plain sight. Often, victims will be in public—perhaps waiting for someone to help them—yet feel invisible. This may have been how 12-year-old Savannah felt when her trafficker was...
by Sarah Hamill | Jan 15, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
“We have worked hard and just want what is due to us and to go home. We are stuck now in cramped accommodation, with poor food and no clean drinking water. We are treated like animals.”1 By: SARAH HAMILL This Nepalese construction worker in Qatar is not alone in his...
by Jasmine Dela Luna | Dec 19, 2018 | Articles, Case Law, Legal Blog
By: JASMINE DELA LUNA In April 2018, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to human rights advocacy efforts when it held that foreign corporations may not be defendants in civil suits brought under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) in Jesner v. Arab Bank.1 This ruling means...