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Fraud Eats Strategy

Human Trafficking is Everyone’s Problem: Steps that Organizations Can Take to Disrupt Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is the fastest-growing transnational crime with more than 25 million people held in forced labor and sexual exploitation. As if these numbers aren’t horrifying enough, 10 million of those trafficked people are children, and yet rarely are US organizations focused on human trafficking’s impact on their operations, much less society as a whole. In fact, most of us consider human trafficking to be a problem occurring in developing countries and that there are more pressing issues that should demand our attention and compliance resources. That false narrative is part of what makes human trafficking so difficult to counter.

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Join us each week as we take a deep dive into the various forms of fraud across the world and discuss crime families, penny stock boiler rooms, international money launderers, narco-traffickers, oligarchs, dictators, warlords, kleptocrats and more.

Scott Moritz is a leading authority on white-collar crime, anti-corruption, and in the evaluation, design, remediation, implementation, and administration of corporate compliance programs, codes of conduct. He is also considered an authority in the establishment, training, and oversight of the investigative protocols carried out by financial intelligence, corporate security, and internal audit units.
 

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Hidden Traffic Podcast

How Unseen UK is Tackling Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery with Andrew Wallis


 
Andrew Wallis is CEO at Unseen UK, a charity dedicated to eradicating modern slavery wherever it is found, and bringing safety, hope, and choice to the survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery. Andrew is a member of several boards for organizations that seek to end labor abuse, advocate for human rights and social justice, and enforce ESG. He discusses how Unseen is fighting modern slavery, and how leaders can do their part.
 

 
Unseen works with all the major statutory agencies to assist victims of human trafficking and slavery that are identified within the UK. They help paramedics and local government develop a more victim-based approach, tackle forced labor within business’ supply chains, and run the UK’s modern slavery helpline, which is a fully manned, 24/7 operation. The helpline receives calls from victims, concerned members of the public, police officers, and businesses. It’s critical that the call handlers understand the need for the victims’ confidentiality, as well as the legislation necessary to extricate them from their circumstances.
 
“There isn’t an industry sector or country that isn’t impacted by the issue of human trafficking,” Andrew claims. “I’ve stood in many conferences and told them that I wasn’t there to make them feel guilty; we’re all guilty. [We need to] get over [the guilt], and start thinking about how we’re going to get out of the mess we’ve built.”
 
Resources
Andrew Wallis on LinkedIn | Twitter
UnseenUK.org
ModernSlaveryHelpline.org
 

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FCPA Compliance Report

Irene Kaushansky – Supply Chain the Connective Tissue in the Fight Against Modern Slavery

In this episode of the FCPA Compliance Report, I visit with Irene Kaushansky, Associate Director of Compliance and Operational Integrity at Global Fund to End Modern Slavery. Irene is passionate about the fight against Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. She talks about the Fund and its mission in this podcast. Highlights of this podcast include:

  1. What is the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery? What is the problem of modern slavery?
  2. How does the organization accomplish this mission?
  3. Why is the private sector so critical to fighting this international scourge? How does the organization work with the private sector?
  4. What is some of the impact the Global Fund has achieved?
  5. How to get involved with the Global Fund.

Resources

Global Fund to End Modern Slavery

Irene Kaushansky on LinkedIn

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STAKE: The Leadership Podcast

Instead of Encouraging Words, Try This


Are your words not having the effect you wish they’d have at work? I have a tip to share with you to help you change the results you’re getting from your communication efforts.
In today’s episode, I’m sharing two stories with you. One story is about the frustration of a manager in a class I led recently. The other story is about a mistake I made. There is one goal here…to help you be more successful in your own leadership journey. It is my hope that after today’s episode, that you’ll have your eyes, heart, and mind opened to a new way to better move forward as you communicate, connect, and lead your employees.
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Hidden Traffic Podcast

Fighting Against Modern Slavery with Matt Friedman


 
Human trafficking doesn’t always take the form we first imagine – it can be found at almost any level of an organization’s supply chain. In the Hidden Traffic podcast, host Gwen Hassan helps compliance professionals assess human trafficking risk and leverage their organization’s resources to root out this tragic problem. 
 

 
Matt Friedman joins Hidden Traffic as the first guest. He is a global expert on modern slavery and human trafficking, and the founder and CEO of The Mekong Club, where he regularly advises heads of governments and intelligence agencies. Matt is considered by captains of industry to be the leading catalyst of the anti-slavery movement in Asia’s business sector. He shares how The Mekong Club helps companies protect themselves and avoid risk.
 
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) came about as a form of self-regulation for organizations to contribute positively to their surrounding communities, but the intended overall objective has not yet been achieved, Matt says. Nowadays, organizations often use CSR as a smokescreen to hide questionable and sometimes unethical practices. 
 
Resources
Matt Friedman on LinkedIn
TheMekongClub.org
 

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The Ethics Movement

Human trafficking: How compliance can lead the fight with Gwen Hassan


How can compliance teams lead the fight against human trafficking? Tom Fox and Philip Winterburn connect with Gwen Hassan, a compliance leader and legal counsel with over 20 years of experience at multinational corporations. Gwen is passionate about fighting human trafficking in our corporate supply chains, and shares her insight and experience on this episode of The Ethics Movement.

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The Compliance Life

Gwen Hassan on Her Passion on Fighting Human Trafficking


The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Gwen Hassan, Managing Counsel and Director of Compliance at CNH Industrial.
In this fourth and final episode, Gwen talks about one of her great passions—the fight against human trafficking. Gwen has led the compliance field in education on this international scourge and sees the corporate compliance function as having the key role in every corporation to fight this global problem.