Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance

📍 Exiger returns to London this July for an exclusive Executive Forum focused on one of the biggest challenges facing global supply chains: human rights risk. Taking place at the Great Scotland Yard Hotel on July 15th, the event — Human rights in the supply chain: From obligation to operational discipline — will bring together leaders from procurement, compliance and supply chain to explore how businesses move beyond policies and into real operational oversight. Hosted by Exiger, the discussion will feature: 🔹 Tim Fowler, Exiger 🔹 Koray Köse, Köse Advisory & Slave-Free Alliance 🔹 Tim Nelson FRSA, Hope for Justice & Slave-Free Alliance 🔹 Erika Peters, Exiger Topics include: ✔️ The realities of forced labour risk ✔️ Why traditional compliance models fall short ✔️ Embedding human rights intelligence into supply chain decisions ✔️ Moving from reactive remediation to proactive governance As scrutiny on supply chains intensifies, forums like this are becoming essential conversations for procurement and supply chain leaders. 👉 SupplyChain Strategy readers can request a place here: https://zurl.co/rvoxD #SupplyChain #Procurement #HumanRights #ESG #Compliance #RiskManagement #ModernSlavery #Exiger #SupplyChainStrategy #CPOstrategy

Could modern slavery risks be hiding within everyday business operations and supply chains? Join us on Friday, 8 May for this powerful and thought-provoking session with Tim Nelson, CEO of Hope for Justice, exploring modern slavery from a practical, business-focused, and global perspective. Topics covered include: • Hope for Justice - Who we are and how we bring freedom to victims of modern slavery. • Slave Free Alliance – supporting organisations to prevent and address modern slavery. • Tantalum in Our Everyday Lives – understanding its role in the global economy and supply chains. • The Freedom Wall. 🗓️ Friday, 8 May | 10am – 11am | Online Free for LIA members | €35 non-members Register now: https://lnkd.in/dsuiK3cn #LIA #ModernSlavery #Ethics #CorporateResponsibility #SupplyChains #ProfessionalDevelopment #ESG #Leadership

Excited and proud to be a part of this event we're running on the 29th July in London to combine my two passions - sharing and supporting a fantastic charity (Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance). Look forward to sharing more details soon . . . . hope to see you there!!

Modern slavery is not decreasing. It’s growing. We welcome this important report from the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, which has received widespread media attention today and which highlights the urgent need for prevention, awareness, and stronger protection for those at risk. At Hope for Justice, we’re grateful to have been invited to contribute our expertise to this report, helping shape conversations around the future of exploitation and how we can stop it before it happens. In 2025 alone, over 23,000 potential victims were identified in the UK and referred for support, a figure that’s nearly doubled in just a few years. This is not a distant issue. This is happening here. Now. Behind every statistic is a person and a life that matters. Read full article here: https://lnkd.in/egwuE7Pr #ModernSlavery #HumanTrafficking #HopeForJustice #EndItMovement #UKNews

We joined with lawmakers, congresspeople, survivor leaders, and other NGOs at the 5th Anti-Trafficking in Persons (ATIP) Roundtable. This annual event is vital for strengthening our collective anti-trafficking efforts. Independent Anti-Labor Trafficking Consultant, Ronny Marty, who sits on our Survivor Leadership Council, addressed the attendees, emphasizing the importance of legislation in survivor recovery and in enabling victims to rebuild their lives. He said that legislation such as the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, which Hope for Justice has been a long-term supporter of, are central to removing barriers for survivors after exploitation. “True freedom”, he said, “includes the ability to move forward without the weight of past criminalization, and to access real opportunities for stability and growth.” You can read more about the roundtable here: https://lnkd.in/eXZbhnMN

I noticed this in the toilets at Stansted airport recently. It's a Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance poster - "Spot the Signs of Modern Slavery" - on the wall directly above the hand-dryers. Someone, somewhere, made a very good call on this. The text may be too small to read here - but the poster itself is clear: plain language, headings and bulletpoints, a number to call. But what struck me most was the placement: a busy airport, a higher-risk location for trafficking in the UK; in the bathrooms, a single-sex space; and above the hand dryers specifically - one of the very few spots in any public building where you have a captive audience, standing still, with nothing to do except look at the wall in front of them for 20-30 seconds. It's the last one that impresses me most. Placement in front of a captive audience - a small thing, but it's the difference between a poster that exists and a poster that lands. This is what a behavioural lens does for implementation. It asks not just what information needs to get out, but who needs to receive it, where they are when they're most likely to absorb it, and what conditions make attention and action more likely. We need to apply this thinking more in the world of responsible business. I'm sure we've all seen the examples - the supplier code of conduct buried in a procurement portal, the human rights policy that lives on the intranet no one visits, training delivered once at onboarding and never again. The content may be perfectly good. The design of how it reaches people is too often an afterthought. Have you seen other examples of implementation genuinely well designed using behavioural insights - in this space or any other? Share in the comments or via DM. #behaviour #humanrights #behaviourchange #hrdd #responsiblebusiness

US Trade Agreements Raise Forced Labour Expectations for Malaysia New US trade agreements require Malaysia to adopt a forced labour import ban, showing how trade policy is increasingly tied to human rights compliance. Slave-Free Alliance can help your business to prepare for and navigate a fast-changing global landscape of human rights due diligence laws and regulations – search Slave-Free Alliance or reach out to us here on LinkedIn to speak with our friendly team. #TradePolicy #ModernSlavery #GlobalSupplyChains 🔗 Read more: 

"It was an odd feeling to feel positive about an acknowledgement of something that was so intrinsically negative. But it is vindication and validation." We are glad that this decision is helping Rachael Louw in her recovery and her journey as a survivor, and that she feels it is another step on the road to justice. We want to recognise the work of our colleagues at Unseen UK and the tenacity of campaign group No One Above in this case too, as referenced in the article. There is a mistake in this BBC report, however: victims and survivors do not make "applications" to the National Referral Mechanism. This is not something individuals can do, and the false idea of "applications" helps to drive the myth that individuals can make fraudulent claims pretending to be victims. Instead, potential victims are referred to the NRM, which has to be done by organisations specifically accredited to do so. The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner has confirmed: “There is no substantive evidence to suggest this system is being misused." (Note: Hope for Justice does not normally name survivors of modern slavery. However Rachael has deliberately chosen to waive her anonymity and we are respecting her decision to speak out in her own name.) https://lnkd.in/eAr-U79p