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In recent years, there has been a boom in information on human trafficking. Many businesses are now actively engaged in anti-human trafficking efforts: adopting corporate codes of conduct, developing sectoral agreements on issues such as child labor, and addressing problems within the supply chain, to name but a few initiatives.
In order to step-up the initiatives against human-trafficking, a Business Leader Award was first proposed in May 2008 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) session held in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt by representatives of the international community; the proposal was seconded by the business community. This call was echoed in March 2009 at the Bahrain Conference, Human Trafficking at the Crossroads, which concluded with the Manama Declaration, advocating zero-tolerance to human trafficking.
Award Objectives
1. Encourage and stimulate the international business community to make the fight against human trafficking its business and to challenge it to adopt ethical business standards;
2. Raise awareness among business leaders and employees on how to recognize human trafficking and act to stop it;
3. Set quality standards and benchmarks by showcasing and promoting some of the breakthroughs made by business leaders in combating human trafficking; and
4. Create a responsive platform that acknowledges good practices and spurs action.
Business Leader’s Award to Fight Human Trafficking 2012
In this context, End Human Trafficking in partnership with the UN Global Compact and UN.GIFT has just launched the call for nominations for the Business Leader’s Award to Fight Human Trafficking. This is the second award cycle.
The first-ever award was jointly bestowed during the Luxor International Forum in December 2010, to Christopher Davis (Body Shop International), Marilyn Carlson Nelson (Carlson Companies) and Robert Rigby-Hall (LexisNexis, Inc.).
Criteria of eligibility
1. To be eligible for consideration, the business leader must be working in an entity which is a legally registered organization providing goods and/or services.
2. As an international award, submissions from all regions and countries are eligible.
3. The specific anti-human trafficking initiative by the respective business leader entered for consideration must relate to activities undertaken within the last ten years, since 2000 when the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking In Persons, Especially Women and Children was adopted.
Nomination criteria
The award program will consider nominations of business leaders who have proven that they have the vision and commitment to combating human trafficking.
Last date for submitting the nomination is September 30, 2011
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