Australia Starts Tackling Modern Slavery

Expand Women work in the sewing division of a factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. Women constitute about 90 percent of the workforce in Cambodia’s garment industry, which produces for many international apparel brands. Human Rights Watch has documented that workers in Cambodia frequently experience forced overtime, pregnancybased discrimination, and denial of paid maternity leave.   © 2014 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch A new law in Australia requires companies of a certain size operating in Australia to publicly state the steps they are taking to keep their supply chains free from…

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