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Ferrero’s human rights progress report underlines key work tackling child labour issues
05 Apr 2025 12:59 GMT
… report affirms that “upholding human rights is essential for sustainable business … to eradicate all forms ofmodern slavery, including human trafficking, forced, … on Business and Human Rights, the International Bill of Human Rights, and the International …
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Fintech: Managing Human Rights Risks to Maximize Social Benefits
03 Apr 2025 14:28 GMT
… for illicit transactions, perpetuating human rights risks associated with illegal acts … Examples of human rights implicated: Right to be free from slavery, including specific … companies address the negative human rights implications associated with their …
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Three Principles for Defending Human Rights Amid Great Power Competition
03 Apr 2025 06:27 GMT
… ; property rights; and prohibitions against slavery, torture, and arbitrary detention. These … on which human rights globally ultimately depended and having a human rights strategy designed …
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Abolition wasn’t fueled by just moral or economic concerns – the booming whaling industry also helped sink slavery
04 Apr 2025 12:31 GMT
… democracy and human rights.
The decline and eventual abolition of slavery has been … inverse relationship between whaling and slavery.
When whaling products went up … before fossil fuel mechanization made slavery obsolete. While industrialization eventually made …
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Karen Bradley: ‘It is time to build upon the world-leading Modern Slavery Act’
03 Apr 2025 09:11 GMT
… Slavery has been described by Theresa May as ‘the great human rights … passing of the Modern Slavery Act was another hurdle … pounds to produce a modern slavery statement, which sets out … in relation to new modern slavery legislation, “nothing is currently …
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Cuba’s UMAP Camps or the Slavery of Youth
03 Apr 2025 07:07 GMT
The UMAP lasted several years; it is estimated that at least 25,000 young people passed through its camps.
To say that the UMAP was implemented to seek the social re-education of repressed individuals is false. / Archive of “El Nuevo Herald”
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Passover and Antisemitism: Three Chilling Insights
06 Apr 2025 06:16 GMT
… not the greatest violators of human rights on earth. Whether in ancient … preferred the familiarity of Egyptian slavery to the uncertainty and responsibility … , even in the face of slavery (Shemot Rabbah 1:28). On …
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Law should address uneven compliance over modern slavery, Bishop of Bristol tells Lords
02 Apr 2025 12:04 GMT
… human-rights due diligence” in tackling the evils of modern slavery … “The issue of modern slavery and exploitation in supply … . and enforce the Modern Slavery Act by imposing financial penalties … Lord Kempsell (Conservative) described slavery as “a crime which …
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North Korean defector Yeonmi Park speaks on current political issues
06 Apr 2025 01:03 GMT
… that tyranny still exists, that human rights are not guaranteed and that … exist [in North Korea], like human rights, liberty, individual freedom.”
Park also … , Park was sold into sex slavery — she said that while she …
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'Dark undertone': For some, Trump policies dent Lady Liberty's promise
05 Apr 2025 22:16 GMT
… the brainchild of an anti-slavery activist. It is recognized as … ;America used to fight for human rights. Now the people I work …