As many G20 nations work to curb modern slavery, organizations must be prepared for the residual impacts of the evolving legislation landscape.
The outcome would be that irregularly present migrants have few remedies and diminished access to them as a result of changes which post-date the UK's commitment to the Fair Migration Agenda and ratification of the Forced Labour Protocol.
transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of people”using “force, fraud or deception”to achieve the goal of “exploiting them for profit”[1]. Human trafficking encompasses sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, servitude, and the removal of organs [2]. Recruiting...
Dependencies of industries on natural capital Sources: MSCI ESG Research, World Economic Forum and PwC. 2020. “Nature Risk Rising: Why the Crisis Engulfing Nature Matters for Business and the Economy.”, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). 2020....
but money spent on home improvement as well. Current interest rate levels have “trapped” home equity as homeowners are reluctant to use a cash-out refinance or a home equity line of credit to finance home remodeling and repair projects. This is the case on both sides of the U.S.-Canada...
The Global Impact of Human Trafficking Human trafficking is similar to a modern day slave trade; however‚ human trafficking is more problematic and encompasses more than just agricultural work. Sara Birkenthal‚ researcher and author of Human Trafficking: A Human Rights Abuse with Global Dimensi...
5G imposes more stringent reliability requirements on the network because the loss of the GNSS signal can impact radios within a few hours. This means the network needs a reliable backup synchronization source. In many cases, this backup will come from a site other than the one where the radio...
Latency refers to the time one has to wait till their transaction is processed. With public decentralized distributed ledgers, there is a huge number of nodes that need to reach a consensus for a transaction to be verified. And to process the transaction so that consensus can be reached, each...
Other forms of modern slavery which are either less prevalent (for instance, trafficking for the removal of organs) or that affect mainly women and girls (for instance, forced marriage) are excluded from the review. 3 The Psychosocial Working Group (2003) adopted the term “psychosocial well...
Shipping, the transporting of goods and passengers by water. Maritime shipping is responsible for the transport of the majority of raw materials, components, and finished products that drive the global economy, supporting the livelihoods of billions of p