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WEBINAR: 'BUSTING THE human rights and modern slavery myths'

7/30/2020

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On Thursday 30th July 2020, coinciding with UN World Day against Trafficking in Persons, Better Sydney facilitated and joined an expert panel at a FREE webinar on 'Busting the Human Rights and Modern Slavery myths'. The panel shared their experiences working with Australian businesses in the first year of reporting under the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018 and debunked some of the common myths that have emerged, including:

  • 'Businesses can't afford to pay everyone in their supply chains a living wage'
  • 'An action plan approved by our leadership team is enough to respond to the risk of modern slavery'
  • 'Now is not the time to start worrying about human rights while we're facing an economic downturn'
  • 'Product certification removes the risk of modern slavery' and
  • 'High quality products that require skilled labour don't have Human Rights impacts'.
The event was hosted by Better Sydney in partnership with Edge Environment, and the speakers were:
  • Robin Mellon, CEO of Better Sydney, and Project Manager for the Property Council of Australia's Modern Slavery Supplier Platform
  • Vanessa Zimmerman, CEO of Pillar Two
  • James Bartle, Founding CEO of Outland Denim
  • Nicole Thompson, Head of Sustainable & Ethical Procurement at Edge Environment
  • Eric Boone, Special Counsel at K&L Gates.

​You can watch / listen to the recording of the webinar on the YouTube link below:
Click here to watch / listen to the webinar
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