Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 63
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The present report offers an overview of the main challenges that multi-stakeholder initiatives and industry coalitions face in helping their member companies and suppliers to eliminate trafficking in persons in their operations and supply chains. Improving awareness of trafficking in persons and risk practices among the stakeholder base is a prerequisite to establishing a standard that can effectively evaluate company performance in preventing and addressing trafficking in persons. The embedding of workers’ voices as an alternative source of information on company performance must be guaranteed. Audit methodologies must be reviewed to ensure that third-party audits are performed under optimal circumstances, that the resources necessary to collect the voices of workers are allocated and that auditors have the skills necessary to evaluate trafficking in persons risk practices. Multi-stakeholder initiatives and businesses must identify solutions in order to ensure a voluntary standards strategy in which workers, trade unions and civil society play a central role at the standard-setting level and in monitoring schemes and corporate grievance mechanisms.
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Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children