Slavery and Child labor in Global Supply Chains
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The webinar will explore the phenomena of slavery, forced labor, child labor, and other modes of servile labor exploitation at the bottom of global supply chains. Case studies to be explored will include apparel manufacture in India, seafood in Thailand, agriculture in the United States, and cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The reasons for the persistence of slavery and the pervasiveness of child labor will be explored, as well as efforts to address these issues and why they fall short. Finally, we will explore what responsibilities businesses have to ensure that such abuses do not exist in their supply chains.
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Siddharth Kara
Author, Activist, Expert on modern-day slavery and human trafficking, child labor, and related human rights issues.
British Academy Global Professor, an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham.
Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher, screenwriter, and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global professor (2020-2024) based at Nottingham University, an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a senior fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kara has authored three books on modern slavery: Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009); Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012); and Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective (2017). Kara adapted his first book into a Hollywood film, Trafficked. Across twenty-one years of field research, Kara has traveled to more than fifty countries to document the cases of several thousand enslaved people and child laborers. Kara advises several UN agencies and numerous governments on anti-slavery policy and law. Kara's current research focuses on cobalt mining conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is also the topic of his forthcoming book, Cobalt Red.