Human Trafficking and Forced Labor i. When possible, the Foundation will collaborate with other investors to engage companies through corporate dialogues, proxy voting, and support of shareholder resolutions to effectively address human trafficking and forced labor by developing codes of ethics that follow the Palermo Protocol of 2000, insofar as this resource does not contradict the teaching of the Catholic Church, and identify high risk areas for human trafficking and forced labor along their supply chains and partner companies and make necessary changes.
Human Trafficking and Forced Labor. By Supplier providing goods or services to International, including to any of International’s Third-Party Designees, Supplier is affirmatively representing and warranting that Supplier and its subcontractors and suppliers do not, directly or indirectly, engage in, utilize the labor or services of, or otherwise support Human Trafficking and or Forced Labor. “Human Trafficking” is defined as: the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of the threat, use of force, or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power, of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation. “Forced Labor” is defined as: work or service which is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer work or service voluntarily. Prohibited Forced Labor also includes slave labor, convict labor, indentured labor (work or service performed pursuant to a contract, the enforcement of which can be accomplished by process or penalties), and forced or indentured child labor.
Human Trafficking and Forced Labor. During the Agreement Period, Recipient agrees not to engage in severe forms of human trafficking, procure a commercial sex act, or use forced labor in performance of the Agreement. Recipient further agrees to ensure that its employees and subrecipients observe the same requirement, and to disclose any information or allegations of violations that come to its attention; failure to comply with the requirements of this Article may result in unilateral termination of the Agreement by CRDF without penalty or further payment.
