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| The government is to intervene to encourage companies to scrutinise their supply chains for evidence of worker exploitation or child labour, the international development minister will announce this coming week. | The government is to intervene to encourage companies to scrutinise their supply chains for evidence of worker exploitation or child labour, the international development minister will announce this coming week. |
| Detailing a £1m grant from the aid budget towards a campaign to lobby businesses to take more responsibility for the labour practices within their supply chains, international development secretary Priti Patel, said she wanted to clamp down on global child exploitation. | Detailing a £1m grant from the aid budget towards a campaign to lobby businesses to take more responsibility for the labour practices within their supply chains, international development secretary Priti Patel, said she wanted to clamp down on global child exploitation. |
| Patel is to sit as a member of the first-ever government taskforce on modern slavery, which will be chaired by the prime minister, Theresa May, who announced in July that this was a priority for her government. Reducing modern slavery within supply chains will be a core focus of that work, putting the onus on companies to clean up their act. | Patel is to sit as a member of the first-ever government taskforce on modern slavery, which will be chaired by the prime minister, Theresa May, who announced in July that this was a priority for her government. Reducing modern slavery within supply chains will be a core focus of that work, putting the onus on companies to clean up their act. |
| Before the national day against slavery on Tuesday, Patel outlined an increase in support for women and girl refugees in Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon, and for vulnerable people at risk of trafficking in north Africa and Europe. | Before the national day against slavery on Tuesday, Patel outlined an increase in support for women and girl refugees in Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon, and for vulnerable people at risk of trafficking in north Africa and Europe. |
| “The international response to modern slavery, human trafficking and child exploitation has been far too slow,” she said, “which is why I am making eradicating these crimes a priority. As a member of the first government taskforce on modern slavery, I will … work with international governments, civil society, religious leaders and businesses to stamp out modern slavery and end all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation against children. | “The international response to modern slavery, human trafficking and child exploitation has been far too slow,” she said, “which is why I am making eradicating these crimes a priority. As a member of the first government taskforce on modern slavery, I will … work with international governments, civil society, religious leaders and businesses to stamp out modern slavery and end all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation against children. |
| “As a globally engaged, outward-looking Britain we will keep our promises to the world’s poorest by protecting victims and ending these vile crimes for good.” | “As a globally engaged, outward-looking Britain we will keep our promises to the world’s poorest by protecting victims and ending these vile crimes for good.” |
| Child labour – both forced and not – involves close to 170 million children around the world, while 45 million people work in conditions of forced labour. Children are most commonly used in agriculture – the cotton, coffee and clothing industries are often pointed to as particular offenders – and in some of the poorer African countries, for example, up to 50% of under-14s will be in some kind of work, usually low-paid. But child labour it is not always a clear-cut issue – in some cases children may be working in order to attend school or help their family feed itself, while a study in the Netherlands suggested a third of Dutch 12-year-olds had a part-time job. | Child labour – both forced and not – involves close to 170 million children around the world, while 45 million people work in conditions of forced labour. Children are most commonly used in agriculture – the cotton, coffee and clothing industries are often pointed to as particular offenders – and in some of the poorer African countries, for example, up to 50% of under-14s will be in some kind of work, usually low-paid. But child labour it is not always a clear-cut issue – in some cases children may be working in order to attend school or help their family feed itself, while a study in the Netherlands suggested a third of Dutch 12-year-olds had a part-time job. |
| Patel said DfID will prioritise work with sectors including mining, tourism and agribusiness to improve transparency in labour practices and supply chains around the world as part of her new role as a founding board member of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, a group lobbying governments, multilaterals, civil society, religious leaders and businesses to end all forms of abuse and exploitation of children. | Patel said DfID will prioritise work with sectors including mining, tourism and agribusiness to improve transparency in labour practices and supply chains around the world as part of her new role as a founding board member of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, a group lobbying governments, multilaterals, civil society, religious leaders and businesses to end all forms of abuse and exploitation of children. |
| The secretary of state’s focus on this agenda comes on the back of existing work which, DfID said, has already reached over 200,000 women in south Asia and the Middle East through the Work in Freedom programme, which trains women in their communities and works with businesses and recruiters to tackle trafficking. | The secretary of state’s focus on this agenda comes on the back of existing work which, DfID said, has already reached over 200,000 women in south Asia and the Middle East through the Work in Freedom programme, which trains women in their communities and works with businesses and recruiters to tackle trafficking. |
| Other grants being announced are £4mn for the Women and Girls Protection Fund for Europe and North Africa, which supports vulnerable groups at risk of trafficking or violence along migration routes, including by giving them access to legal and psychosocial services, and a £1mn extension to the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, which will protect girls and women and support survivors of violence across seven key countries: Egypt, FYR Macedonia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Serbia and Turkey. The focus will be on providing funding to smaller women’s rights and civil society organisations addressing the issue of sexual and gender-based violence experienced by women and girl refugees, said DfID. | Other grants being announced are £4mn for the Women and Girls Protection Fund for Europe and North Africa, which supports vulnerable groups at risk of trafficking or violence along migration routes, including by giving them access to legal and psychosocial services, and a £1mn extension to the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, which will protect girls and women and support survivors of violence across seven key countries: Egypt, FYR Macedonia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Serbia and Turkey. The focus will be on providing funding to smaller women’s rights and civil society organisations addressing the issue of sexual and gender-based violence experienced by women and girl refugees, said DfID. |