Lecture

Re:Structuring the Global Economy to Prevent Forced Labor

Date
Thu March 10th 2022, 10:00 - 11:15am
Event Sponsor
Center for Human Rights and International Justice
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Join us for a webinar hosted by our partners in Re:structure Lab, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University. Launched with generous support from Humanity United and the Freedom Fund, the Re:Structure Lab brings together leading academic experts, researchers, and real-world practitioners working on forced labor and evidence-based anti-trafficking policy. With pandemic recovery providing an opportunity for change, the Re:Structure Lab firmly believes the time is now to reimagine business models and supply chains to inform a more equitable economy.

Drawing on recent academic research across several disciplines, the Re:Structure Lab has developed an ambitious set of six Forced Labor Evidence Briefs. Each brief makes recommendations for how to restructure business models and supply chains to promote equitable labor standards and protect workers from forced labor and exploitation. A concluding Blueprint pulls out cross-cutting themes from the Lab’s work to date, offering a vision and guidance for creating a more socially and environmentally sustainable future.

Join us for a webinar featuring some of the leading thinkers involved in the Re:Structure Lab, who will describe the ways existing business models drive labor exploitation and how they must be altered to ensure a more equitable path forward.

Introductions: David W. Blight, GLC Director and Sterling Professor of History, Yale

Moderator: Jessie Brunner, Deputy Director of Strategy and Program Development and Director of Human Trafficking Research, the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University

Panelists:

  • Saray Bedoya, Re:Structure Lab Supply Chains Research Assistant, Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University
  • Genevieve LeBaron, Director of the School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University
  • Sarah Newell (Director of Outreach and Communications for the Worker-Driven Social Responsibility Network)
  • JJ Rosenbaum (Executive Director, Global Labor Justice)
  • Philippe Sion (Managing Director, Humanity United)

Q&A, Closing Remarks: Amb. Luis C.deBaca (ret), Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School; Gilder Lehrman Center Affiliate Scholar

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