Supply Chain Leaders Must Address the Child Labor Crisis
Global supply chains are plagued by child labor abuse — 160 million or more children are toiling in factories, fields and other locations. Supply chain leaders need to know how to deal with this crisis and take action to prevent human rights violations.
This handbook from GEP, in collaboration with the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, puts a spotlight on this ongoing crisis. Child Labor: A Strategic Guide for a Path Forward outlines how enterprises can play a critical role in rooting out underage workers.
What’s Inside:
- An overview of the risk factors leading to increases in child labor
- The legislation that is mandating enterprises to perform due diligence across their supply chains
- Case studies of child workers whose lives have been transformed through intervention
Why Read This White Paper
Risk Factors
An overview of the conditions leading to increases in child labor
A Look at Legislation
Regulations mandating enterprises to perform due diligence across their supply chains
Stories of Hope
Case studies of child workers whose lives have been transformed through intervention
Child Labor Is Rampant. Supply Chain Leaders Need to be Diligent. Read Now
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GEP® delivers AI-native procurement and supply chain solutions that help global enterprises become more agile and resilient, operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability and increase shareholder value.
Fresh thinking, innovative products, unrivaled domain expertise, smart, passionate people — this is how GEP SOFTWARE™, GEP STRATEGY™ and GEP MANAGED SERVICES™ together deliver procurement and supply chain solutions of unprecedented scale, power and effectiveness. Our customers are the world’s best companies, including more than 1,000 Fortune 500 and Global 2000 industry leaders who rely on GEP to meet ambitious strategic, financial and operational goals.
A leader in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrants, GEP’s AI-native procurement and supply chain platform consistently wins awards and recognition from industry analysts, research firms and media outlets, including Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, and Spend Matters.
GEP is also regularly ranked a top procurement and supply chain consulting and strategy firm, and a leading managed services provider by ALM, Everest Group, NelsonHall, IDC, ISG and HFS, among others.
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