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FINANCE AGAINST TRAFFICKING: Detailed analysis of how the UN
Guiding Principles can be applied in the fight against Human
TraffickingPrinciple authors are Clare Titcomb, steering group
member and trustee of FAT and Colleen Theron, director of FAT
What does the paper cover?
Explanation of the UN Guiding principlesThe significance of the
Guiding principles Examining the corporate responsibility to
respectExamining corporate failures to respect human
rightsExplaining how businesses can apply the GPs to combat the
risk of human trafficking Applying the UN Guiding Principles for
Business and Human Rights in the Fight against Traffiking
Legal risk Operational risk Reputational risk
Why should business bother?
Business can be affected by human trafficking in a number of
different ways. Aside from active and intentional involvement in
human trafficking, which is likely to be a criminal offence in most
jurisdictions, businesses can be inadvertently affected in the
following ways:where core operations or services are directly
affected by trafficking: for example: (i) a business operating in
the transport sector might be inadvertently transporting victims of
trafficking for the purpose of exploitation; (ii) a hotel business
might be unknowingly harbouring victims of trafficking for the
purpose of prostitution; or (iii) the workers producing products or
delivering services for a company might be victims of trafficking
due to exploitative recruitment practices through agencies whose
procedures the company has not properly checked. where a company
has a business relationship (direct or indirect) with an entity
whose core operations or services are directly affected by
trafficking: for example a company may be associated with
trafficking through the actions of its suppliers, sub-contractors,
agents or business partners. This could arise in any sector where a
company with multiple suppliers does not monitor the recruitment
and labour practices of those suppliers and therefore unwittingly
gives economic support to a system that involves exploitation.
How ca it affect my business? ( extract from the paper)
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The paper sets out some case studies based on recent examples on
various human trafficking issues. For example trafficking of
children as slave labour in the African cocoa sector. The case
studies provide the background to the case, examines if trafficking
was involved, what human rights were violated, the corporate
failure to respect human rights and lessons to be learnt from each
case studyCases on human trafficking
The paper provides detail on how business can apply the Guiding
principles to combat the risk of human traffickin . For example,
under each applicable guiding principle some detailed guidance is
provided on how to apply it to human trafficking related issues. An
extract is provided below GP 16:Policies and ProceduresThe starting
point for the management of human rights is the creation of a
policy. This policy should :Express the company's commitment to
meet the responsibility to respect human rights Be approved at most
senior level, Be informed by internal and external expertisesee
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http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HR.PUB.12.2_En.pdfGP
16:policies and procudures ( read more form the full paper)
How should business tackle the issue?
