How Investors Can Avoid Forced Labour and Slavery

Investors talk in front of an electronic board showing stock information, filled with green figures indicating falling prices, at a brokerage house in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China, July 3, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
By David Schilling
LONDON – BUSINESS – Today, investors are much more aware of the risks companies face from poorly managed supply chains.
Estimates of the number of those trafficked into forced labor and slavery globally range from 21 million to 46 million persons.