Addressing Forced Labor and other Modern Slavery Risks: A Toolkit for Corporate Suppliers

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  Alice Pease

  Manager, Human Rights, BSR

  

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  Alice Pease

  Manager, Human Rights, BSR

  

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  Alice advises consumer sector members on how to design and implement human rights governance, strategy and due diligence programs, and multi-stakeholder collaboration, with a particular focus on anti-trafficking. She manages the Global Business Coalition against Human Trafficking (GBCAT) and Healthcare and Human Rights Forum collaborative initiatives.

  Prior to joining BSR, Alice managed a campaign at the British Parliament on an initiative to strengthen the supply chain transparency requirements of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. Previously, she had policy and research roles with a human rights focus at the Argentine Council for International Relations, the European Commission, and the Italian National Research Council. Alice is the co-author of Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment, published by Polity in 2018.

  Alice holds an MA in International Relations: Latin America—Europe from the University of Bologna and an MA in History and Spanish from the University of Edinburgh. She speaks English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

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• Shubha Chandra

  Former Manager, BSR

• Sara Enright

  Former Director, BSR

Businesses operating in global supply chains are more likely to encounter situations of forced labor or other forms of modern slavery than their multinational counterparts, yet many lack simple guidance on how to identify, prevent, and manage these risks effectively.

To address this gap, this toolkit from the Global Business Coalition against Human Trafficking (GBCAT) aims to help businesses that work in corporate supply chains to quickly identify areas of the business which carry the highest risk of modern slavery and develop a plan to identify, prevent, and address risks. While the toolkit is designed particularly for small- and medium-sized enterprises, it can help businesses of all sizes who are new to understanding modern slavery risks.

GBCAT has also released a one-page infographic highlighting practices to avoid the use of forced labor and has compiled a list of resources for suppliers for additional guidance on its supplier portal.