Webinars and workshops 2025
During 2025, we will hold seven 1.5-hour webinars and online workshops for public authorities to help them address modern slavery and human rights risks in their global supply chains.
There will be five sessions on high-risk, high-spend sectors, and two skills-building workshops on evidence, evaluating the quality of information from suppliers to meet their contract criteria and how they can improve it. Attendees will receive practical guidance notes covering the issues, questions to ask suppliers and key contacts with expertise in particular sectors and countries.
All webinars will take place online from 11:00-12:30 CET.
Participating public authorities should send the list of attendees with their names and e-mail addresses to Cindy Berman and Haëndila Varela at least one week before each webinar.
Previous Knowledge Building webinars
Transport and logistics
Critical to the way our global economy operates, the transport and logistics sector employs 18.5 million people worldwide. Workers suffer unsafe working conditions, discrimination and harassment, poor pay and extremely long hours doing physically arduous work on precarious contracts. Unscrupulous logistics and transport suppliers take advantage of the hidden nature of these services by exploiting workers to reduce their costs.
In this webinar on March 26, transport and logistics workers, inspectors and employers shared their expertise on labour and human rights issues. They highlighted examples of good practices to tackle worker rights violations, and provide practical advice you can use in your procurement processes.
The construction industry
The construction industry contributes to economic growth and creates employment for around 220 million workers globally. But it is also known for its negative impacts on the environment and poor human rights record. Construction jobs are among the most dangerous and exploitative in the world, carrying high risks and incidence of modern slavery. Governments and public sector bodies are by far the largest customers of construction projects and have enormous leverage that could drive improvement for workers and reduce harm to the environment and communities.
This webinar on January 29 highlighted examples of good practices and initiatives to tackle and prevent worker rights violations on construction sites, and provided practical advice for public buyers to use in their procurement processes. The speakers discussed questions to ask suppliers and relevant tools and standards, as well as sources of expertise for further information and advice.
Banana workers at risk
The first webinar, a free taster session held on 1 October 2024, focused on the banana industry. Watch it below or read the briefing note for an overview.