Other Relevant Covid-19 Responses

 

• Freedom United, “Coronavirus and Modern Slavery” (March 13, 2020)
  
  
• Risk Communication and Community Engagement Working Group, “Covid-19: How to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement” (March 15, 2020)

• International Labour Organization, “What are the key policies that will mitigate the impacts of Covid-19 on the world of work?” (March 19, 2020)

• International Labour Organization, “Covid-19 and the world of work: Global impact and policy responses” (March 19, 2020)
  
  

• International Labour Organization, “Covid-19 and the world of work: Social protection responses in Asia-Pacific” (March 25, 2020)

• Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, “Crime and Contagion: The Impact of a Pandemic on Organized Crime” (March 26, 2020)

• Nick Grono for Freedom Fund, “Frontline organisations can lead fight against Covid-19 in highly vulnerable communities” (March 26, 2020)

• Angharad Smith and James Cockayne for Delta 8.7, “The Impact of Covid-19 on Modern Slavery” (March 27, 2020)

• Europol, “Pandemic Profiteering: how criminals exploit the Covid-19 crisis” (March 27, 2020)

• International Labour Organization, “ILO Standards and Covid-19” (March 27, 2020)

• Center for Global Workers’ Rights, “Abandoned? The Impact of Covid-19 on Workers and Businesses at the Bottom of Global Garment Supply Chains” (March 27, 2020)

• Refugees International, “Covid-19 and the Displaced: Addressing the Threat of the Novel Coronavirus in Humanitarian Emergencies” (March 30, 2020)

• La Strada International, “The impact of Covid-19 on the protection of rights of trafficked and exploited persons” (March 31, 2020)

• Catherine Baker for ECPAT UK, “We need to support child victims of trafficking amid coronavirus” (March 31, 2020)
  
  

• UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee, “Interim Technical Note: Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) during Covid-19 Response” (March 31, 2020)

• Matt Friedman for the Mekong Club, “Disruption to Global Supply Chains A Boon for Traffickers” (April 1, 2020)

• OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, “Statement on need to strengthen anti-trafficking efforts in a time of crisis” (April 3, 2020)
  
  

• Tony Saggers for RUSI, “How Covid-19 is affecting County Lines” (April 3, 2020)

• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, “UN experts call on Governments to adopt urgent measures to protect migrants and trafficked persons in their response to Covid-19” (April 3, 2020)

• Praxis, “Covid19 Pandemic Voices from Margins: Webinar Series” (April 8, 2020)
  
  

• European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, “Garment Supply Chains in Intensive Care? Human Rights Due Diligence in Times of (Economic) Crises” (April 9, 2020)

• Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), “No Worker Left Behind: Protecting Vulnerable Workers from Exploitation During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic” (April 9, 2020)

• USAID Asia CTIP and Freedom Collaborative, “Covid-19 ‘Rapid Response’ Webinar: Update on returned migrants and Covid-19 crisis in Cambodia” (April 9, 2020)

• USAID Asia CTIP and Freedom Collaborative, “Updates from the frontlines in Cambodia: Summary of Covid-19 ‘Rapid Response’ Webinar” (April 9, 2020)
  
  

• Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, “World Cup & Expo 2020 Construction: Covid-19 & Risks to Migrant Workers in Qatar & the UAE” (April 9, 2020)

• Asian Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA), “The Emperor Has No Clothes: Garment Supply Chains in the Time of Pandemic” (April 10, 2020)
  
  
• Jan Sahas, “Voices of the Invisible Citizens: A Rapid Assessment on the Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Internal Migrant Workers” (April 13, 2020)
  
  

• Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, “Human Trafficking Survivors at Increased Risk Amid Coronavirus Pandemic” (April 14, 2020)

• United Nations, “The Impact of Covid-19 on Children” (April 15, 2020)

• Tech Against Trafficking, “The Effect of Covid-19: Five Impacts on Human Trafficking” (April 16, 2020)

• International Organization for Migration, “Covid-19 Analytical Snapshot #14: Human Trafficking” (April 16, 2020)

• National Survivor Law Collective, “The Impact of Covid-19 on Human Trafficking Victims & Survivors” (April 16, 2020)

• Uk Home Office, “Modern Slavery Reporting during the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic” (April 20, 2020)

• Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, “Human Trafficking and Coronavirus: Podcast” (April 20, 2020)

• United Nations, “Covid-19 and Human Rights: We are all in this together” (April 23, 2020)

• United Nations Association of New York and Freedom United, “Modern Slavery: The Hidden Victims of the Coronavirus” (April 23, 2020)

• Helen Bamber Foundation, “The Covid-19 Public Health Crisis: Urgent call for the UK Government to protect and safeguard survivors of Modern Slavery who have insecure immigration status” (April 24, 2020)

• Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking and Freedom Network USA, “Policy Recommendations & Supplemental Appropriations Requests: Human Trafficking Victims, and Those Vulnerable to Trafficking, Need Increased Protections In Response to Covid-19 Pandemic” (April 24, 2020)

• Verite, “Covid-19 and Vulnerability to Human Trafficking for Forced Labor” (April 24, 2020)
  
  

• Utthan Survivors Leaders Council, “Dear Corona, a.k.a Covid” (April 25, 2020)

• United Nations Population Fund, “Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Family Planning and Ending Gender-based Violence, Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage” (April 27, 2020)

•  Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, “Covid-19 and Modern Slavery: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future of the Fight” (April 28, 2020)

• USAID Asia CTIP and Freedom Collaborative, “Covid-19 ‘Rapid Response’ Webinar: Updates from Malaysia” (April 29, 2020)

• USAID Asia CTIP and Freedom Collaborative, “Updates from the Frontlines in Malaysia: Summary of Covid-19 ‘Rapid Response’ Webinar” (April 29, 2020)

• Anti-Slavery International, “Leaving No-one Behind: Guidance for policymakers, donors and business leaders to ensure that responses to Covid-19 reach victims of modern slavery and people vulnerable to slavery” (April 30, 2020)
  
  

• Walk Free, “Protecting People in a Pandemic: Urgent collaboration is needed to protect vulnerable workers and prevent exploitation” (April 30, 2020)

• OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, “Recommendations on Short-Term Responses to Covid-19” (April 30, 2020)

• Gilder Lehrman Center (Yale University), “Modern Anti-Slavery and Transparent Supply Chains: Building Back Free-er After Crises” (May 1, 2020)

• UNODC, “Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Trafficking in Persons” (May 3, 2020)

• UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, “UN rights expert urges States to step-up anti-slavery efforts and protect most vulnerable amid Covid-19” (May 5, 2020)

• Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, “Technical Note: Covid-19 and Child Labour” (May 6, 2020)

• UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children, “Covid-19: Urgent need for child protection services to mitigate the risk of child sexual abuse and exploitation worldwide” (May 6, 2020)

• USAID Asia CTIP and Freedom Collaborative, “Covid-19 ‘Rapid Response’ Webinar: Update from Thailand” (May 12, 2020)
  
  
• USAID Asia CTIP and Freedom Collaborative, “Updates from the Frontlines in Thailand: Summary of Covid-19 ‘Rapid Response’ Webinar” (May 12, 2020)

• Freedom Fund, “Webinar: On the Frontlines of Vulnerability: Modern Slavery and Covid-19” (May 13, 2020)

• UNODC, “How Covid-19 restrictions and the economic consequences are likely to impact migrant smuggling and cross-border trafficking in persons to Europe and North America” (May 14, 2020)

• Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking, “Joint Statement on Covid-19 Supplemental Funding” (May 15, 2020)

• ArtWorks for Freedom, “The Impact of Covid-19 on Human Trafficking” (May 16, 2020)

• Heather Moore, “Covid-19 and Supply Chains: Are we sacrificing standards at the moment they are needed most?” (May 17, 2020)

• allianceHR, “Webinar: Managing recruitment & labour exploitation risks in light of Covid-19” (May 26, 2020)

• Freedom Fund, “Lessons from Humanitarian Crises” (May 28, 2020)

• Mona Ayoub, “Lebanon: Domestic Workers in the Shadow of Kafala System and Covid-19” (May 28, 2020)

• Alliance 8.7, “The human rights and labour rights of the most vulnerable must be at the heart of the Covid-19 response” (May 29, 2020)

• Winrock International, “Situational Assessment of Labor Migrants in Asia: Needs and Knowledge During Covid-19 (Cambodia)” (June 2020)

• Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, “Aggravating Circumstances: How coronavirus impacts human trafficking” (June 2, 2020)

• United Nations Development Programme, “C19 Impact Analysis: Business and Human Rights/Access to Remedy in Asia – Summary Findings” (June 5, 2020)

• Katharine Bryant for Walk Free, “Exploring Cash Transfers in the Time of Covid-19” (June 09, 2020)

• Polaris, “Crisis in Human Trafficking During the Pandemic” (June 10, 2020)

• United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the ILO, “The Covid-19 pandemic could increase child labour in Latin America and the Caribbean” (June 11, 2020)

• Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, “Covid-19 Could Increase Human Trafficking, Experts Fear” (June 12, 2020)

• International Labour Organization, "Covid-19 and Child Labour: Looking forward in times of crisis” (June 12, 2020)

• Mahmudul Hoque Moni, “Child Labour and Coronavirus in Bangladesh: How do we respond to the shattered livelihoods?” (June 13, 2020)

• Winrock International, “Situational Assessment of Labor Migrants in Asia: Needs and Knowledge During Covid-19 (Bangladesh)” (July 2020)

• Freedom Fund, “On the Frontlines of Vulnerability: Safeguarding Children in a Pandemic” (July 1, 2020)

• World Vision, “Covid-19 Aftershocks: Out of Time” (July 7, 2020)

• Alliance 8.7, “High-Level Political Forum 2020: Achieving SDG Target 8.7 and universal social protection in times of Covid-19” (July 10, 2020)

• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, “Addressing Emerging Human Trafficking Trends and Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic” (July 30, 2020)

• War Child UK, "Covid-19 in Fragile Humanitarian Contexts: Impacts of the Pandemic on Children" (July 2020)

• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, “Impact of the coronavirus disease pandemic on contemporary forms of slavery and slavery-like practices” (August 4, 2020)

• Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, “Briefing–Responding to Covid-19: What can companies do to promote responsible recovery?” (August 5, 2020)

• Freedom Fund, “Global pandemic, local devastation: Frontline efforts to support the most vulnerable” (September 16, 2020)
  
  

• Jonathan Todres and Angela Diaz, "COVID-19 and Human Trafficking—the Amplified Impact on Vulnerable Populations," JAMA Pediatrics (September 21, 2020)

• Caregivers' Action Centre, “Behind Closed Doors: Exposing Migrant Care Worker Exploitation During Covid-19” (October 2020)

• Eastern Africa Child Rights Network of Civil Society Organizations, Stop the Traffik Kenya, and Freedom Collaborative, "Child Trafficking and Unsafe Migration in Kenya in the Time of Covid-19" (October 15, 2020)

• Equidem, "The Cost of Contagion: The Consequences of Covid-19 for Migrant Workers in the Gulf" (November 18, 2020)

• GoodWeave International, "Hidden and Vulnerable: The Impact of Covid-19 on Child, Forced and Bonded Labor" (November 30, 2020)

• Winrock International, "How to Build Cross-Sectoral Collaboration to Protect Workers in the Age of Covid -19" (November 2020)

• Global Protection Cluster, "Aftershock: Abuse, Exploitation & Human Trafficking in the Wake of Covid-19" (November 2020)

• Delta 8.7, "Promise and Limits of Remote Monitoring in Addressing Forced and Child Labour" (December 2, 2020)

• Delta 8.7, "Human Trafficking and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Public Health Perspective" (January 7, 2021)

• Freedom Fund, "Reflecting on the Year that Was: Lessons from the Covid Frontlines" (January 28, 2021)

• Delta 8.7, "Migration and Modern Slavery: New Challenges in the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil" (February 5, 2021)

• Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, "Apparel Workers in Bangladesh Face Overwhelming Vulnerability Due to Covid-19" (March 2021)

 

 

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