Liberty Shared sign an MOU with Malawi Network Against Trafficking
Liberty Shared and MNAT enter partnership, and study assesses the human rights policies of the 20 largest German companies.
Liberty Shared was very pleased to enter into an MOU to partner with the Malawi Network Against Trafficking (MNAT) and ran a two-day workshop with 25 MNAT members to launch Liberty Shared’s new Collaborative Case Data Platform in Lilongwe, Malawi last week.
MNAT chairs the Program, Planning and Monitoring Committee in the National Coordination Committee on Combatting Trafficking in Person in the Ministry of Homeland Security in Malawi. The platform which was implemented and operational by the end of the workshop provides MNAT and its members with a nationwide means of managing victim case records across their entire network in Malawi.
MNAT comprises 230 member organizations across Malawi that support around 30 victims per day. The recent withhold release order issued by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on tobacco from Malawi and products containing tobacco from Malawi highlights the urgency of the issue. The ban follows the news that human rights lawyers are to bring a case against British American Tobacco (BAT)_in the high court in London over child labor in Malawi’s tobacco fields, as a result of revelations by the Guardian of the scale of the abuse last year.
MNAT and Liberty Shared recognize that case data is crucial to combatting human trafficking and forced labor. Accurate and comprehensive case data helps frontline workers improve and develop care and provides evidence to support greater access to justice and accountability.
The Collaborative Case Data Platform (CCDP) has been designed to provide support to large coordinated networks whose members are developing their capacity in challenging operating environments.
Liberty Shared has developed this tool to complement its existing Victim Case Management System and Freedom Collaborative's efforts to gather data on concise questions relating to specific trafficking activities and routes from the global community.
MNAT and Liberty Shared intend to develop the expansion of the CCDP to networks in neighboring countries in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA).
Here’s a round-up of other noteworthy updates and news:
On October 29, the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) shared the 2019 report on U.S. government efforts to combat trafficking in persons. During the annual meeting, the 2019 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons was presented to Ms. Kendis Paris, executive director and co-founder of the U.S.-based nonprofit Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT), and to the Responsible Business Alliance.
The new study Respect for Human Rights: A Snapshot of the Largest German Companies assesses 20 largest German companies' human rights policies and practices ahead of a German government deadline on possible regulation. The study finds that 90% (18/20) of the assessed companies failed to fully disclose how they manage their human rights risks sufficiently.
And a new scoping study explores the programmes and initiatives of local faith actors (which can include formal and informal religious leaders, worship communities, faith networks, and local and national faith-based organisations) in their response to modern slavery and human trafficking in the Global South.
Over 100 Bangladeshi female migrants who were living in a shelter in Saudi Arabia have returned home
Bride trafficking to China spreads across Asia due to China’s gender imbalance
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