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This guidance for investors outlines key steps relating to a company’s development of a specific anti-trafficking program, including elements the company should include in reports to demonstrate to stakeholders and shareholders that they are evaluating key risks in the supply chain and taking appropriate steps to address them. These include: - Develop and implement a human rights policy - Establish a human rights due diligence process - Conduct human rights risk assessments - Review, develop, and implement auditing, verification and traceability mechanisms - Train staff, suppliers, vendors, contractors, and auditors - Collaborate to expand efforts and influence - Produce a robust and substantive annual report -
The Blue Campaign is an anti-trafficking campaign run by the US Department for Homeland Security. This toolkit contains instructions for staff at the different levels within US hotels and information about the signs of human trafficking.Credit: Blue Campaign
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This infographic factsheet from Polaris has been put together using statistics from the National Human Trafficking Resource Centre hotline and texts from the Polaris BeFree texting helpline. It specifically references human trafficking in hotels and motels in the US. The data is used to identify trends in cases and indicators of sex and labour trafficking in hotels, and the factsheet provides recommendations for the hotel industry.Credit: Polaris Project
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The US Department of Labor maintains a list of goods and their source countries which it believes likely to have been produced by child labour or forced labour in violation of international standards. It is not an exhaustive list and is primarily intended to raise public awareness, but is a useful starting point for considering the origins of any products bought for use by and within the hotel.Credit: US Government
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The report, "No Vacancy for Child Sex Traffickers Report: The Efficacy of ECPAT-USA’s Work to Prevent and Disrupt the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Hotels", highlights the efforts of ECPAT-USA in engaging the US travel and tourism industry in protecting children from sex trafficking and exploitation.Credit: ECPAT-USA
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The Trafficking in Persons Report, or TIP Report, is an annual report issued by the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. It provides countrywide statistics on Human Trafficking including definitions, themes and case studies. It ranks governments based on their perceived efforts to acknowledge and combat human trafficking.Credit: United States of America Department of State
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