Summary slideshare of detailed paper available at www.financingagainsttrafficking.org. The UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights are seen as a game changer. How do they apply to human trafficking? What should business be doing to reduce the risks of human trafficking in their supply chain?

1. FINANCE AGAINST TRAFFICKING: Detailed
analysis of how the UN Guiding Principles can be
applied in the fight against Human Trafficking
Principle authors are Clare Titcomb, steering group member
and trustee of FAT and Colleen Theron, director of FAT

2. Applying the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human
Rights in the Fight against Traffiking
What does the paper cover?
• Explanation of the UN Guiding principles
• The significance of the Guiding principles
• Examining the corporate responsibility to respect
• Examining corporate failures to respect human rights
• Explaining how businesses can apply the GPs to combat
the risk of human trafficking

3. Why should business bother?
• Legal risk
• Operational risk
• Reputational risk

4. How ca it affect my business?
( extract from the paper)
Business can be affected by human trafficking in a number of different ways.
Aside from active and intentional involvement in human trafficking, which is likely to be a criminal offence in most
jurisdictions, businesses can be inadvertently affected in the following ways:
where core operations or services are directly affected by trafficking: for example: (i) a business operating in the
transport sector might be inadvertently transporting victims of trafficking for the purpose of exploitation; (ii) a hotel
business might be unknowingly harbouring victims of trafficking for the purpose of prostitution; or (iii) the workers
producing products or delivering services for a company might be victims of trafficking due to exploitative recruitment
practices through agencies whose procedures the company has not properly checked.
where a company has a business relationship (direct or indirect) with an entity whose core operations or
services are directly affected by trafficking: for example a company may be associated with trafficking through the
actions of its suppliers, sub-contractors, agents or business partners. This could arise in any sector where a company
with multiple suppliers does not monitor the recruitment and labour practices of those suppliers and therefore
unwittingly gives economic support to a system that involves exploitation.

5. Cases on human trafficking
The paper sets out some case studies based on recent
examples on various human trafficking issues. For example
trafficking of children as slave labour in the African cocoa
sector.
The case studies provide the background to the case,
examines if trafficking was involved, what human rights
were violated, the corporate failure to respect human rights
and lessons to be learnt from each case study

6. How should business tackle the issue?
The paper provides detail on how business can apply the
Guiding principles to combat the risk of human traffickin .
For example, under each applicable guiding principle some
detailed guidance is provided on how to apply it to human
trafficking related issues. An extract is provided below
“GP 16:
Policies and Procedures
The starting point for the management of human rights is the creation of a policy. This policy should :
Express the company's commitment to meet the responsibility to respect human rights
Be approved at most senior level,
Be informed by internal and external expertise
see pg26 http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HR.PUB.12.2_En.pdf
GP 16:policies and procudures’ ( read more form the full paper)