January 23rd, 2012 1:10 PM

New California Law Combats Human Slavery via Supply Chain Trasparency 

By Rachel Cernansky

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, a time to educate people that slavery existstoday and build support for the fight to stop it. But this January also happens to be the month that a new law in California has come into effect, the first of its kind in the U.S., and one that has the potential to do more than just raise awareness of human trafficking and actually make a real dent in the problem itself.

Human trafficking and forced labor are largely hidden problems, but they persist in just about every country in the world (including in the U.S.) whether it’s in cotton fields that feed our demand for clothing or in factories where our electronics are assembled. As consumers, we are all connected to human trafficking and slavery through the goods we use every day. But a large hurdle in eradicating slavery is how disconnected those final products are from the conditions that produced them.  Read more >>

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