Paper Chains

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Paper Chains

Five24

6 episodes

1 week ago

Send us a text Welcome to Episode 6 of the Paper Chains Podcast — where we unpack major reports on exploitation and human trafficking and talk through what we’ve read to make these often dense documents more accessible and understandable for everyone. This episode is brought to you by Ethical Trade Co. Learn more about their work at www.ethicaltradeco.com. In this episode,we examine three different approaches to tackling child labour in supply chains: developing local smelting capacity in DRC...

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Episodes (6/6)

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Episode 6 - Pathways to Change – Smelters, Skills, and Sesame

1 month ago

31 minutes

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Episode 5 – Reframing Child Labour Due Diligence: Insights from Fifty Eight’s Report

Send us a text Welcome to Episode 5 of the Paper Chains Podcast — where we unpack major reports on exploitation and human trafficking and talk through what we’ve read to make these often dense documents more accessible and understandable for everyone. This episode is brought to you by Ethical Trade Co. Learn more about their work at www.ethicaltradeco.com. In this episode, we’re diving into “Reframing Child Labour Due Diligence”, a 2024 report from UK-based Fifty Eight. The report challenges ...

2 months ago

34 minutes

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Episode 4 - From Report to Reality: What Changed (and What Didn’t) Between 2023 and 2024

Send us a text In this episode of Paper Chains, we compare the 2023 and 2024 U.S. Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Reports to uncover what’s really changed in the global fight against human trafficking. From shifting country rankings to policy reversals and eerily familiar patterns, we break down the most critical updates and explore what they reveal about international accountability—or the lack of it. This conversation isn’t just about documents—it’s about the people behind the data and what th...

4 months ago

56 minutes

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Episode 3 - The 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report

Send us a text Welcome back to Paper Chains. In this episode, we dive into the 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report—the U.S. State Department’s flagship assessment of how countries around the world are fighting (or failing to fight) human trafficking. This is the report that sets the global benchmark, but it’s also one that’s dense, overwhelming, and often overlooked by the public. Our goal today is to break it down in plain language—highlighting the most disturbing trends, the countries moving...

4 months ago

40 minutes

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Episode 2 - The 2023 U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report

Send us a text In this episode, we unpack key insights from the 2023 U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report, highlighting how human trafficking continues to evolve globally. We explore how governments, NGOs, survivors, and even banks are teaming up to fight exploitation—focusing on prosecution, protection, and prevention. The episode dives into survivor-led reform, the push to stop punishing victims for crimes they were forced into, and how modern challenges like war, climate change, and tech are...

5 months ago

30 minutes

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Episode 1 - UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024

Send us a text Welcome to this episode of the podcast, where we take a deep dive into the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. This is the seventh edition of the report, and it's a big one—spanning data from 156 countries and unpacking what’s really happening in the world of human trafficking today. In this episode, we break down the report’s key findings, trends, and takeaways so you don’t have to sift through the whole thin...

5 months ago

29 minutes