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Working with the Financial Sector to Correct the Market Failure of Modern Slavery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2020

James COCKAYNE
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Keywords

Modern SlaveryHuman TraffickingCapital MarketsFinanceForced LabourRemedyHuman Rights
Type
Developments in the Field
Information
Business and Human Rights Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , pp. 159 - 162
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Conflicts of interest: The author declares none.

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Head of Secretariat, Liechtenstein Initiative for Finance Against Slavery & Trafficking. The Liechtenstein Initiative for Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking, housed at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (New York, USA), is a public-private partnership between the Governments of Liechtenstein, Australia and the Netherlands and Liechtenstein private sector and charitable entities.

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