The Business of Trafficking: Risks and Rewards
It’s an old cliché for businesses to talk about people being “our greatest assets”. Many a Human Resources department will wax lyrical on this point, to win the best recruits and, in turn, the highest profit margins. Whether or not you buy into the cliché, there’s one area in which it holds true… Human trafficking. According … Read more
People and Profits: What’s the Bottom Line?
With around 140 years of trading under it’s belt, investment firm Goldman Sachs has courted it’s share of controversy over the years. In one particularly memorable stunt, filmmaker Michael Moore went as far as wrapping the firm’s New York headquarters in police tape and declaring it a ‘crime scene’, given it’s visible hand in the 2008 … Read more
Where does the buck stop?
The stark link between big business and human trafficking was hard to ignore this week in the Guardian report of ‘trafficked and beaten’ workers collecting chickens for Freedom foods. In a joint operation between Kent police, the GLA and the Serious Organised Crime Agency 30 Lithuanian workers were liberated from a gangmaster company in Kent. … Read more
Finance Against Trafficking – Press Release
London leads the way in the financial fight against human trafficking Tuesday 30th November sees the launch of Finance Against Trafficking at City Hall’s London Living Room. Steve Chalke MBE, UN Special Advisor and STOP THE TRAFFIK founder; Sandra Kozeschnik, UN Civil Society Partnerships; Kit Malthouse AM, London Assembly Deputy Mayor for Policing; and Mary … Read more
