Yale University’s School of Architecture holds powerful conference on forced labor in the “built environment” and invited the Fair Food Program to share its insights from the Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) experience;
Wide range of participants discuss importance of worker participation, concrete methods to ensure workers’ rights are protected
Last month, one of the CIW’s co-founders, Greg Asbed, was invited to speak at Yale University’s School of Architecture to share the CIW’s two decades of experience stopping forced labor in food, textile, and other industry supply chains around the global through the Fair Food Program and the Worker-driven Social Responsibility model.
The occasion was a innovative conference — co-chaired by a longtime CIW partner in fighting forced labor, Ambassador Lou C.deBaca who today teaches law at the University of Michigan but led US government activities in the global fight against contemporary forms of slavery during the Obama administration — bringing together experts in forced labor, architecture and various other connected fields to discuss the widespread incidence of forced labor in the building industry, from the manufacturing in bricks by child laborers in Nepal to the laying of bricks by bonded workers in worksites around the globe, and the most effective methods for ridding the industry of that most inhumane form of labor abuse.
We have put together a short video here below of some of the highlights of Greg’s presentation and the question and answer session that followed. For more on the event, including the full video of the entire two-day conference, click here.
