Resource Hub

This resource hub is intended to provide a central repository for resources on understanding the risk of modern slavery to business, modern slavery policy and legislation, and how this can be applied to the hotel industry.

“The launch of this resource hub shows the effectiveness of collaboration and is a significant step-up in trafficking prevention measures. It is a practical and useful step towards aiding businesses in identifying and preventing modern slavery where is occurs.”
Professor Alexandros Paraskevas, COMBAT

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    Modern Slavery and the Hotel Industry: Best Practice Guidance for Franchising

    This guide, drafted by Liberty Shared, recognises the risks the hotel industry, and in particular hotels operating under major international brand franchises, face in regards to human rights abuses. This guide provides franchisors with an overview of the risks associated with modern slavery in relation to hotel franchise agreements and sets out practical solutions aimed at increasing the prospect that a franchisee's operations are free from these risks. Liberty Shared aims to prevent human trafficking through legal advocacy, technological interventions, and strategic collaborations with NGOs and corporations in Asia and globally.
    Credit: Liberty Shared
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  • Employment & Recruitment Agencies Sector Guide on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

    This Guide applies the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the specific context of employment and recruitment agencies. Recognising that each company is different, it is intended to help agencies “translate” respect for human rights into their own systems and company cultures. In December 2011, IHRB and Shift were selected by the European Commission (Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry) to develop sector-specific guidance on the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, as set out in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
    Credit: Shift & Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
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  • Hospitality Toolkit

    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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  • A Guide on CSR and Human Rights – what does it mean for companies in supply chains?

    The Centre is the training arm of the ILO. This guidance is intended for small and medium-sized enterprises to understand, implement and adhere to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It looks at the expectations placed on SMEs and buyers, the challenges they face and the support available for them.
    Credit: International Training Centre for the International Labour Organization
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  • Human Trafficking on Temporary Work Visas

    This report highlights the destructive practice of labour trafficking on temporary work visas, how the system is flawed, and the steps needed to fix it. From 2015-2017, Polaris collected data on the US temporary work visa system and identified some 800 victims of human trafficking who held temporary work visas at the time of their abuse.
    Credit: Polaris
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  • No Vacancy for Child Sex Traffickers Report

    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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  • Human Trafficking and Business: Good Practices to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking

    This report presents an introduction and overview of human trafficking and the role that business can play in addressing it. It draws from key case studies to illustrate some of the many ways employers can practically address human trafficking.
    Credit: UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking
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  • Risky Business: Tackling Exploitation in the UK Labour Market

    This report provides a comprehensive guide to an effective response to human trafficking for labour exploitation in the UK. It identifies the picture of risk to individuals of exploitation in the UK labour market, then presents solutions to such exploitation through: labour inspection and enforcement; gateways to advice and remedy; and corporate accountability.
    Credit: Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX)
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  • A Typology of Modern Slavery Offences in the UK

    This report presents findings from research to create an evidence‐based typology of modern slavery offences in the UK. The research sought to devise a typology of modern slavery offences to improve the government's understanding of the different ways that modern slavery manifests in the UK and to inform tailored policy and operational responses. The typology, which is based on analysis on 328 confirmed cases of modern slavery in the UK, identifies 17 types of modern slavery offences setting out the characteristics of the victims, offenders and offences involved for each type.
    Credit: Home Office
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  • The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights

    This publication is the official guidance accompanying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; it is designed to support effective implementation.
    Credit: OHCHR
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  • Slavery and human trafficking: guidance for businesses

    This guide provides tailored advice for all businesses in Scotland in relation to human trafficking, exploitation and every business’s legal and ethical duty. Part one is relevant to all businesses; part two contains advice for businesses with an annual turnover of £36 million or more; part three contains advice for businesses with an annual turnover below £36 million.
    Credit: Scottish Government
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  • Consuming Modern Slavery Report

    This report investigates how consumers understand modern slavery and their role in perpetuating and/or eradicating modern slavery. It is organised into three sections. The first section focuses on consumer perceptions of modern slavery, the second on consumer accounts and justifications for (widespread) inaction in relation to modern slavery, and the third on questions of consumer trust and responsibility within a multi-stakeholder environment. For each section findings are combined with related prior academic research and suggestions for change are made.
    Credit: University of Glasgow, University of Melbourne, Royal Holloway University of London
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  • Modern slavery reporting: is there evidence progress?

    This is an analysis of modern slavery statements that focuses on changes in reporting and practice in addressing forced labour and human trafficking. It covers 150 sample companies across different sectors. It seeks to understand the quality and scope of reporting against the UK Modern Slavery Act’s transparency requirements set out in s. 54 as well as the accompanying guidance on recommended content published by the Home Office.
    Credit: Ergon Associates
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  • Best Practice Guidance on Ethical Recruitment of Migrant Workers

    The ICCR is a coalition of faith-based investors. This guidance looks at emerging best practice trends in eight companies from high risk sectors, analysing their developments in corporate ethical recruitment policies and identifying gaps for improvement. The key learning points provided in the guidance can be used as a starting point for businesses to develop their own policies.
    Credit: Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
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  • UK Hotels Policy Guide

    This guide provides support for hotel owners to uphold and protect human rights in their business and understand risk areas. It includes information and case studies about risk areas, tools and instruments to help companies adhere to the law and implement good practice, and a step-by-step guide for companies to meet the responsibility to respect human rights.
    Credit: University of Liverpool
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  • The International Labour Organization’s Fundamental Conventions

    The ILO is the UN organisation responsible for setting and monitoring international labour standards. The ILO has identified eight conventions covering subjects they consider to be fundamental principles and rights at work. These are at times referred to as the core labour standards: ● Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) ● Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention,1949 (No. 98) ● Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) ● Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105) ● Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) ● Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) ● Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) ● Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111)
    Credit: Copyright © International Labour Organization, 2002
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  • Six Steps to Responsible Recruitment: Implementing the Employer Pays Principle

    The Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment calls for the implementation of the Employer Pays Principle which requires companies to commit to bearing the costs of recruitment. This short guide breaks down six steps companies should take to meet the commitment in practice.
    Credit: Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment
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  • Modern slavery in Company Operation and Supply Chains: Mandatory transparency, mandatory due diligence and public procurement due diligence

    This paper sets out what leading governments are already doing to insist global business does more to eradicate modern slavery. It draws from this experience to set out how these uncoordinated actions could become a robust, and harmonised international standard for national legislation.
    Credit: ITUC and Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
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  • Hedging Risk by Combating Human Trafficking: Insights from the Private Sector

    Hedging Risk by Combating Human Trafficking: Insights from the Private Sector is designed to help companies share best practices so they can mitigate their risks and help eliminate this heinous practice. In this first of a series, we highlight insights and technology-driven interventions in the hospitality, finance, and transportation industries.
    Credit: World Economic Forum
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  • Framework for Working with Suppliers: Mitigating Risk of Modern Slavery

    The Framework for Working with Suppliers: Mitigating Risk of Modern Slavery is a tool intended to be used by stakeholders at various levels of management within the hotel industry. It recommends specific responsibilities for brands, hotel owners and management companies, based on best practice and the experience and input of the Stop Slavery Hotel Industry Network (the "Network") membership. The Network brings together representatives from across the hotel industry to combat human trafficking and modern slavery within the sector. Its ethos stems from the acknowledgement that actors across the industry, whether international brands, bespoke hotel groups, independent owners, managers or employee agencies are all responsible for combating this horrific crime.
    Credit: Stop Slavery Hotel Industry Network
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  • General Manager Handbook

    This Handbook is to be used by General Managers in conjunction with the Stop Slavery Blueprint. It offers practical tools to help operationalise the guidance from the Blueprint and provides example documents that can be adapted and used accordingly. The Stop Slavery Blueprint has been created by Shiva Foundation and was initially trialled in a group of hotels, with its implementation coordinated and supported by the Foundation. The Blueprint sets out the key principles for hoteliers wishing to implement their own anti-slavery initiatives.
    Credit: Shiva Foundation
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  • Stop Slavery Blueprint

    The Stop Slavery Blueprint has been created by Shiva Foundation and was initially trialled in a group of hotels, with its implementation coordinated and supported by the Foundation. The Blueprint sets out the key principles for hoteliers wishing to implement their own anti-slavery initiatives. It provides guidance and recommendations in the form of: • Policies and practices, • Procedures and protocols, and • A checklist of suggested actions. The Blueprint also sets out guidance on transparency, reporting, performance measurement, business partner engagement, risk assessment, business authentication, and investigation and remediation. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the Stop Slavery General Manager Handbook which provides practical guidance and materials.
    Credit: Shiva Foundation
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  • Harnessing the Power of Business to End Modern Slavery

    The Walk Free Foundation was established by Andrew Forrest, the Chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, after he found labour exploitation within his own supply chains and took a number of steps to prevent modern slavery affecting his business. This report provides an overview of modern slavery in a global context with statistics, case studies, and review of legislation and policy.
    Credit: Walk Free Foundation
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  • Modern Slavery on your Doorstep

    Crimestoppers is an independent charity helping law enforcement to locate criminals and help solve crimes. They have an anonymous 24/7 phone number (0800 555 111) that people can call to pass on information about crime. They are running a campaign to help people identify the signs of modern slavery and give specific information about the hospitality sector. The flyer about spotting the signs is in six languages.
    Credit: Crimestoppers
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  • Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity

    The Dhaka Principles provide a roadmap that traces a migrant worker from recruitment, through employment, to the end of contract. They provide key principles that employers and migrant recruiters should respect at each stage in the process to ensure migration with dignity.
    Credit: Institute for Human Rights and Business
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  • Trafficking in Persons Report: June 2017

    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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  • The Typology of Modern Slavery

    Polaris is a US-based anti-slavery NGO. They gather stories of survivors of human trafficking in different settings. The Typology of Modern Slavery they have created breaks down human trafficking into categories based on industry, providing solutions for tackling the crime based on the characteristics of each.
    Credit: Polaris Project
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  • Workers’ Acommodation: processes and standards

    This Guidance Note is written by the EBRD, an international financial institution, and the IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, which creates opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives. It is aimed at providing practical guidance to IFC and EBRD specialists, consultants and clients on the processes and standards that should be applied to the provision of workers’ accommodation in relation to projects funded by IFC or the EBRD. The Guidance Note also provides examples of good practice approaches that businesses have successfully applied in their operations.
    Credit: International Finance Corporation & the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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  • Industry Standard Supplier Survey

    The Slavery and Human Trafficking Risk Template (STRT) is a free, open-source data collection template that forms the backbone of corporate modern slavery due diligence programs. It is maintained by a Development Committee committed to ensuring it keeps stride with new research and evolving industry needs. It is housed under the Social Responsibility Alliance, an initiative dedicated to providing companies with the open-source data collection tools they need to build socially responsible supply chains.
    Credit: Social Responsibility Alliance
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  • Human Rights Due Diligence Framework

    The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is an alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs that promotes workers' rights around the world. This guide is for companies to help them prevent and manage labour rights risks, and understand why engagement, negotiation and collaboration is key.
    Credit: Ethical Trading Initiative
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  • Dark Chocolate: Understanding human trafficking risks in the chocolate supply chain; we have a choice

    LexisNexis and STOP THE TRAFFIK produced this report after an investigation into the link between chocolate and human trafficking. The report is aimed at consumers seeking to better understand the products they consume, those working with suppliers and NGOs seeking to understand how media cover societal issues.
    Credit: Lexis Nexis and Stop the Traffik
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  • Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour

    The purpose of this ILO report is to give a better understanding of the socio-economic root causes as well as a new assessment of the profits of forced labour. It highlights how forced labour thrives in the incubator of poverty and vulnerability, low levels of education and literacy, migration and other factors. The evidence and results presented in this report illustrate the need for stronger measures of prevention and protection and for enhanced law enforcement as the basic responses to forced labour. At the same time, it also provides new knowledge of the determinants of forced labour that can help with developing and expanding policies and programmes to not only stop forced labour where it exists, but prevent it before it occurs.
    Credit: International Labour Office (ILO) Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour (SAP-FL) Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch (FPRW)
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