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Article

1 Jan 2014

Author:
Clare Titcomb & Colleen Theron, Finance against Trafficking (UK)

[PDF] Applying the Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in the Fight Against Human Trafficking

The prevention of human trafficking has traditionally been the sole responsibility of States...The private sector was...required to comply with national legislation criminalising active participation in human trafficking but...it had no additional duties...[C]ompanies are...expected...to comply with the law [and] to take action to ensure that their operations and their supply chains are free from human trafficking...[T]he private sector now has a recognised international responsibility to avoid infringing international human rights law...This manual examines...the corporate responsibility to respect human rights...and the crime of human trafficking, to explain how companies have a duty to apply the [UNGPs] to reduce the risk that their operations or their supply chains are affected by human trafficking...[refers to Archer Daniels Midland, ASDA (part of Walmart), Budgens, Cargill, Co-­op, Daoud & Partners, Kellogg Brown & Root, McDonald’s, Morrisons, M&S, Nestlé, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Noble Foods]