ICE Partners With NGO on Forced Labor Enforcement
The ICE Homeland Security Investigations Global Trade Investigations Division partnered with Liberty Shared, "a nongovernmental organization with global coverage founded in Hong Kong, to combat forced labor in global commerce," ICE said in a news release. "By using its unique…
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authorities, and by partnering with organizations like Liberty Shared with information about corporate supply chains and financial flows, HSI seeks to gather information that will lead to successful prosecutions and significant steps being made in eliminating forced labor," the agency said. "By eliminating the financial draw of using forced labor, and any profit to be made by the exploitation of human beings to produce goods for market, HSI seeks to have a positive impact on reducing forced labor." The NGO has built a "global infrastructure to support the protection of vulnerable people with many partners in civil society, banking/finance, the legal industry, information service and technology providers," ICE said.