Samsung Electronics and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) not too long ago collaborated to host a workshop entitled “Modern Slavery and Ethical Recruitment.” Held in Budapest on November 26, the informative occasion featured roughly 40 members from Samsung Hungary, native suppliers and enterprise companions, and was organized to highlight methods to cut back the enterprise dangers related to fashionable slavery.
It was the second such workshop that Samsung Electronics and the IOM have hosted – following a related occasion held in Kuala Lumpur in June – as a part of an ongoing effort to deal with fashionable slavery within the electronics {industry}.
According to statistics from the IOM, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Walk Free Foundation, roughly 40 million folks worldwide are victims of contemporary types of slavery. Of these, an estimated 25 million persons are subjected to compelled labor. Many are hidden in plain sight, working throughout a wide range of industries and geographies.
Eastern Europe and Central Asia have the best charges of contemporary slavery, with an estimated 3.6 million victims. Some 91 % of those people are believed to be victims of compelled labor.
Like the Kuala Lumpur occasion, the Budapest workshop was held to lift consciousness inside Samsung and amongst its enterprise companions of the labor rights of migrant employees within the firm’s provide chains. Samsung’s dedication to stopping, figuring out and mitigating unethical recruitment practices is specified by its Migrant Worker Guidelines, which the corporate lined intimately in the course of the occasion.
The workshop additionally included shows from Samsung on primary employees’ rights, and from the IOM on the traits and industry-specific dangers of contemporary slavery. Speakers additionally outlined Hungary’s authorized framework for stopping compelled labor and mentioned enterprise instances for taking motion to counter fashionable slavery, in addition to methods to make sure moral recruitment practices.
Forced labor stays a critically vital subject all over the world. Going ahead, with the IOM’s assist, Samsung Electronics will proceed its efforts to make sure that employees’ rights are protected all through its world provide chain.
