Water
According to the Global Water Institute, approximately 700 million people currently suffer from water scarcity, with billions more experiencing some water shortage or scarcity during certain months of the year. By 2025, 1.8 billion people are expected to be living in areas with absolute water scarcity. To avoid this unconscionable outcome, which will result in the displacement of millions of people, “water has to be treated as a scarce resource, with a far stronger focus on managing demand.” Read more about water scarcity and what you can do about it here .
Immigration
Please watch this webinar on Family Separation, hosted by Justice for Immigrants, and don’t forget to participate in our Voter Voice campaign to Stop Separating Children and Families at the US Border! For those of you are able, please consider joining a rally on June 30 to tell Donald Trump and his administration to stop separating kids from their parents!
Trafficking
Investor Statement on Supply Chain Modern Slavery Legislation in Canada
By Ethel Howley, SSND
To identify and address the use of modern slavery and child labor in global supply chains, Global investor institutions, including the SSND Cooperative Investment Fund, with a total of $2.3 trillion in assets under management, wrote to the Canadian Government urging them to enact effective legislation intended for investors and Canadian companies.
Effective legislation would require companies operating in Canada to develop and report annually on their due diligence efforts to prevent and mitigate the risk of modern slavery and child labor in their supply chains. The disclosure required by supply chain due diligence legislation would also help investors to understand the human rights oversight and mitigation being implemented by Canadian companies and to make decisions based on that information. The investor institutions applaud the steps that Canada has taken to date in relation to human rights in global supply chains.
More importantly, the passage of Canadian supply chain due diligence disclosure legislation would create an enabling environment for greater preventative action by investors and companies to address human rights risks in global supply chains. The combined potential of private sector and government action should be fully harnessed to effectively eliminate modern slavery and child labor.
Hati
Click here to read about the work our partner, Beyond Borders, is doing to support sustainable livelihoods in Haiti! “Beyond Borders supports the movement in Haiti to replace systems that oppress the poor with systems that support dignified work and sustainable livelihoods. Our primary approach to this work is the Graduation Model, an asset-building approach pioneered in Bangladesh and first brought to Haiti by Fonkoze, Haiti’s largest micro-finance lender.”
Just Act
If you haven’t seen our latest social justice resource, “Seafood and Slavery: Human Trafficking in the Fishing Industry,” please take a few moments to check it out!
