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What do they need to know? Talking to different stakeholders about forced labor in Bangladesh's apparel sector

Different stakeholders need to take different actions to end forced labor in Bangladesh’s apparel sector Different stakeholders need different types of information. What governments need to know vs. what brands need to know may be worlds apart. As an anti-slavery leader working to end forced labor in Bangladesh’s informal apparel sector, the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery seeks to empower …

Three Promising Forced Labor Risk Detection Tools

The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery invests in developing a range of tools to help brands, buyers, and suppliers prevent, detect, and remediate forced labor in their operations. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased workers’ vulnerability to modern slavery across global apparel and manufacturing supply chains. In addition to exacerbating risks to workers, the pandemic …

Practitioner note: Supporting victims and survivors of sex trafficking

In August 2020, GFEMS commissioned the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham to conduct policy and practices to address commercial sexual exploitation in India and Bangladesh. This summary examines and documents current CSE policy in India and Bangladesh across three specific areas: Repatriation of victims Survivor rehabilitation Livelihood support. This summary also aims to …

First Look: Intervention Effectiveness in Bangladesh

Under a partnership with the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, GFEMS funded three individual interventions, led by implementing partners ELEVATE, aimed at disrupting the prevalence of forced labor in India and Bangladesh. For each of the three interventions, GFEMS partnered with Athena-ITAD to conduct “First-Look” case studies. These case studies represent a snapshot of …

Law and Policy Compendium on Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in Bangladesh and India

A GFEMS-funded law and policy review conducted by The Rights Lab, University of Nottingham has been produced as a precursor document to upcoming notes and manuals on rehabilitation, livelihoods, and cross-border coordination for return and repatriation of CSE survivors.  The compendium provides an overview of legislative and policy frameworks on rehabilitation and reintegration in India …

First Look: Empowering families to end child sex trafficking

GFEMS has partnered with Seefar and My Choices Foundation to design and implement an awareness campaign to test and build evidence for what works best in promoting positive knowledge, attitude and practices among children, parents and communities to prevent Child Trafficking (CT) and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC). The goal of this experimental campaign …

First Look: Improving Buyer-Supplier Engagement to Disrupt Forced Labor in Apparel

GFEMS is working with Social Accountability International (SAI) to develop an innovative buyer-supplier engagement platform to improve buyer purchasing practices and supplier capacity/production planning in India’s ready-made garment industry, with the intent of interrupting factors that drive forced and bonded labor. GFEMS has partnered with the Athena-Itad consortium to review this intervention. Within this project, …

First Look: Supporting Survivors of Trafficking in India

GFEMS is funding International Justice Mission (IJM) to strengthen systems that protect victims of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and sustain their freedom in Maharashtra, India. In this project, the IJM team is working towards strengthening the institutions in place for the care and protection of CSEC victims across 10 districts in Maharashtra. GFEMS …

Changing the way we do business: Modern Slavery Risk Mitigation

Following the fourth event in a five part series of webinars, hosted in partnership with the International Organization for Migration and the US Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, GFEMS is pleased to share our latest briefing: Modern Slavery Risk Mitigation: A Candid Conversation on Changing the Way We Do Business The briefing …