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Recent modern slavery Articles
Launch of the Nature Crime Alliance
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-08-26T22:24:16-04:00Saturday, August 26th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: biodiversity degradation, ESG, illegal logging, Kaplow, modern slavery, Nature Crime Alliance, Stuart Kaplow, sustainability law|
Last week saw the launch of the Nature Crime Alliance, a new, multi sector approach to fighting criminal forms of logging, mining, wildlife trade, land conversion, crimes associated with fishing, and the illegal activities with which they converge. The Alliance is significant because this is ...
Two China Based Companies Banned as a Result of Forced Labor
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-08-06T17:19:15-04:00Saturday, August 5th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: forced labor, Kaplow, modern slavery, solar panel, Stuart Kaplow, Uyghur, Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act|
The increasing number of businesses concerned about modern slavery in their supply chain are paying attention to the U.S. government's announcement of new enforcement actions “.. to eliminate the use of forced labor practices in the U.S. supply chain and promote accountability for the ongoing ...
German Law a Model for Safeguarding Human Rights in Supply Chains
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-02-12T18:53:19-05:00Sunday, February 12th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, human rights, Kaplow, LkSG, modern slavery, slavery, Stuart Kaplow, supply chain|
While the new German law does have regulatory ramifications across the globe, in particular for suppliers to German companies, more significant is that it is being heralded as articulating a replicable ESG standard for safeguarding human rights in business supply chains by businesses that believe ...
UN Human Rights Assessment of Uyghurs by China Drives ESG
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-09-20T16:22:13-04:00Saturday, September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: forced labor, Kaplow, modern slavery, Stuart Kaplow, Uyghur, Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act|
We have blogged repeatedly that “the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor” is a key element, if not singularly the most important principle of a business’s practices. That point was driven home with the release last Wednesday, by The United Nations Human ...
Do Something about Slavery in Your Business Supply Chain
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-25T06:46:29-04:00Saturday, July 30th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, Kaplow, modern slavery, slavery, Stuart Kaplow|
Slavery exists in 2022. There is simply no morally defensible reason for not doing everything in our power to end modern slavery. U.S. Customs and Border Protection describes in a May 17, 2022 update, that at any given time, “an estimated 40.3 million people are ...
Modern Slavery a Key ESG Factor
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:22:32-04:00Sunday, March 20th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, Kaplow, modern slavery, Stuart Kaplow|
Slavery exists today. The British government recently reported there are more enslaved people today than there have been at any time in history! And if you doubt that modern slavery is here and now, 20 days ago, on March 1st, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ...