Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 41
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Voluntary standards and certification schemes are the object of criticism by some in the labour rights movement, particularly trade unions, which have claimed that such schemes and their use of audits as a verification method have failed to protect the rights of workers.
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Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children