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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    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 Role of Recruitment Fees and Abusive and Fraudulent Recruitment Practices of Recruitment Agencies in Trafficking in Persons

    This report gives an overview of a UNODC study which sought to address the linkages between abusive recruitment practices and trafficking in persons, including: - Relevant international legal frameworks, - National law, regulation and institutional mechanisms - Law enforcement and criminal justice - Voluntary initiatives including the role of business - Recommendations - Case Studies
    Credit: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
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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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  • Regulating labour recruitment to prevent human trafficking and to foster fair migration: Models, challenges and opportunities

    The ILO is a UN organisation responsible for setting and monitoring international labour standards. This ILO paper includes an introduction and background to the context of labour recruitment in a period of increased global mobility, and details existing international and national labour standards to regulate recruitment of workers. It includes examples from the UK.
    Credit: International Labour Organisation (ILO)
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  • Recruitment Monitoring & Migrant Welfare Assistance

    The IOM is a UN organisation providing advice and services to governments and migrants. This report focuses on the migrant welfare assistance currently offered to members of the Colombo Process group in countries of destination. It reviews provisions currently in place to prevent abusive recruitment practices and includes a proposed framework for measuring the effectiveness of recruitment monitoring.
    Credit: International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
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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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  • 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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  • Modern Slavery: The Dark Side of Construction

    The Chartered Institute of Building published this report to shed light on exploitation within the construction industry. The report looks at labour exploitation all over the world considering the different types of exploitation in the industry, and offering recommendations to develop effective frameworks that will help protect human rights in the industry.
    Credit: Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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