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Global Edition - Today's top story: Learning from Lululemon: If Canada wants to get serious about forced labour, disclosure laws won’t do View in browser

 

Global Edition | 3 August 2023

The Conversation
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Modern slavery – a term that encompasses forced labour and child labour – can exist in any stage of a supply chain, from material extraction to manufacturing to shipping. To combat this serious issue, Canada recently passed the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act. It follows similar moves in Australia, the UK and California.

But in a new investigative research project, Gayathri Krishna, Judy Fudge and Kaitlyn Matulewicz cast doubt on the ability of such laws to effectively address modern slavery in supply chains. Here, they share their findings on sportswear company Lululemon’s efforts to address potential labour abuse in its supply chain.

They write: “If Canada is to truly eradicate force labour in global supply chains, it needs mandatory due diligence legislation that involves supply chain workers at every stage of the process.”

And with Donald Trump, the former US President, due in court today to answer charges that include conspiracy to defraud the country, read our content from experts around the world on this pivotal moment for American democracy.

Eleni Vlahiotis

Business + Economy, Vancouver

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Did the Romans and Greeks really enjoy orgies?

Christian-Georges Schwentzel, Université de Lorraine

Following a number of films featuring debauched emperors, it is nowadays commonplace to associate the Greek-Roman antiquity with orgies. But is this historically accurate?

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