A discussion on the role of investors in driving the responsible recruitment of migrant workers in global supply chains, including:
- how flawed recruitment practices, and particularly the payment of recruitment fees by migrant workers to secure employment abroad, can be core components of debt-bondage, forced labour, and trafficking;
- how responsible recruitment is increasingly featured in government reporting requirements and public procurement contracts;
- how improving and professionalising recruitment practices will deliver tangible benefits to workers, companies, and economic development; and
- how the use of investor leverage, in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, toward responsible recruitment of workers can shift the needle towards reducing exploitation in supply chains.
Speakers included:
- David Schilling, Senior Program Director, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
- Sara Blackwell, Associate Director, Investor Alliance for Human Rights
- Greg Priest, Head of Social Impact and Human Rights, Inter IKEA Group
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Marcela Manubens, Global Vice President for Integrated Social Sustainability, Unilever
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Kilian Moote, Project Director, Know the Chain/ Humanity United
- Adam Kanzer, Head of Stewardship-Americas, BNP Paribas Asset Management
- Alex Cech, Senior Project Manager, Responsible Business Alliance
- Rachel Micah-Jones, Founder and Executive Director, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante
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Anbinh Phan, Director, Global Government Affairs, Walmart
- Shawn MacDonald, Executive Director, Verité
- John Morrison, Chief Executive, Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
