The coronavirus pandemic has dominated the year for the whole world in 2020. For those of us that have been fighting for social justice, it has exposed the things that were never quite as visible as they ought to have been. We saw in plain sight the widening gulf of Continue Reading
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Why our public health services must be vigilant about how and where they buy medical equipment
Pakistan produces around 75% of the worlds high-end surgical instruments that are used in hospitals and health clinics around the world. Child labour and exploitative labour practices are used to produce these – operating in small, informal units at lower ends of the supply chain. I led a multi-stakeholder initiative Continue Reading
Three Ways to Ensure Safer Workplaces after Lockdown
Blog for the British Retail Consortium
Does Organised Crime Drive Modern Slavery, or Is It Something Else?
This article appeared on Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) website 22 March 2018. Modern slavery is often linked to organised crime. We assume the problem is driven by criminal gangs that make huge profits from trafficking and exploiting vulnerable children, women and men into forced labour, sexual exploitation or other Continue Reading