The average New Zealand household spends $34 per week on products whose production depends on modern slavery. This webinar discussed what it is, how it exploits vulnerable populations and actions to take to eliminate it from our supply chains.

The 16th Doc Edge Festival will be held. 3 June – 11 July 2021. The festival features 83 films, 38 days, 4 venues.- Auckland (SkyCity Theatre, The Civic), Wellington (The Roxy) and online nationwide. Here are a couple of films related to transparency

Modern Slavery presents a sizable financial global impact. In the United Kingdom alone the cost of modern slavery as been estimated at between £3.3bn and £4.3bn per year. The New Zealand Government, and its people, need to take a much stronger stand.

In New Zealand human rights law sits mainly within the purview of the Human Rights Commission, Crown Law and the Ministry of Justice.  Human Rights Commissioner, Paul Hunt, is calling for New Zealand to take on the challenge of implementation, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because we are legally bound to this journey.

Without transparency during the COVID-19 pandemic, human rights are compromised and inequality may lead to greater corruption.  This is profoundly affecting peace and security across the globe.

We have a long way to go to redress the imbalance of importing rare earths in return for exporting corruption. New Zealand should consider a law similar to that being introduced in Switzerland. Applying New Zealand’s relatively high standards externally, could go a long way towards helping New Zealand move to a small but influential role in reducing the import and export of corruption.