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The Australian government has left the door open to toughening up the nation’s laws against modern slavery amid concerns about human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region.
Officials also revealed at a Senate hearing on Tuesday that the government was in regular discussions “with all China-facing businesses” and had used those conversations to highlight the risks of forced labour in supply chains from Xinjiang.
Uyghur community representatives told the same hearing Australia had been too slow to respond to “severe oppression” and “atrocities” in the region, possibly because the government was afraid of facing further trade sanctions from Beijing, which denies the accusations.
Whittakers gets top ranking in global ethics report Newshub 3 days ago
Easter is the biggest chocolate-buying time of the year. But who s really paying for the cost of that chocolate?
The second annual report on the social and environmental performance of the world s major chocolate makers show human exploitation and environmental degradation continue to be key ingredients in many chocolate products.
It is a collaboration between five advocacy groups - Be Slavery Free, German-based social justice organisation INKOTA and US environmental outfits Green America,Mighty Earth and the National Wildlife Federation. (Macquarie Business School has been working with Be Slavery Free on research into issues of modern slavery).
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Press Release – Be Slavery Free NZ Whittaker’s Chocolate awarded the ‘Good Egg’ Be Slavery Free (Australia and the Netherlands), Green America , INKOTA , Mighty Earth , and National Wildlife Federation published their 2021 joint Easter Scorecard, analyzing how the worlds biggest …
NZ Whittaker’s Chocolate awarded the ‘Good Egg’
Be Slavery Free (Australia and the Netherlands), Green America, INKOTA, Mighty Earth, and National Wildlife Federation published their 2021 joint Easter Scorecard, analyzing how the world’s biggest cocoa traders, chocolate manufacturers, and retailers are addressing social and environmental benchmarks. These six NGOs bring expertise and experience across the sections in the Scorecard and combined together bring deep understandings to the social and environmental areas in the cocoa production of the chocolate industry and what the emerging bench-marks look like.