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Updates & Resources

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Annual Reports and Progress Reports

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IAST APAC Updates and Resources

Investors have a responsibility to ensure decent supply chainsBanned employee representation, forced levies and loans, withholding identification documents, human trafficking and life-threatening working conditions are just a few of the dark faces that characterise modern slavery today.

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IAST APAC letter to Australian government on National Victims Compensation SchemeWe are writing to express our support for the establishment of a National Compensation Scheme to support victim-survivors of modern slavery identified in Australia.

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IAST APAC co-signs investor letter to NZ government on modern slavery lawWe, the undersigned investors representing funds under management of $295 billion, together with two peak bodies IAST APAC and RIAA, call on the New Zealand Government to enact robust modern slavery legislation that includes due diligence requirements.

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IAST APAC core metrics for modern slavery action, disclosure, collection and publicationThe members of IAST APAC believe that disclosure of a core set of metrics can help to provide an initial scalable step towards analysis of company performance and help to facilitate discussion and engagement with companies (and other stakeholders) to understand modern slavery risks better and move towards positive outcomes.

Other Resources

These resources have been selected to assist asset owners and asset managers to understand the IAST APAC approach to company engagement, its knowledge partners Walk Free and FAST, and emerging best practice in relation to identifying, preventing, remediating, and disclosing modern slavery risks. Further resources and tools will be added.

CCLA Find It Fix It Prevent It

Walk Free Global Slavery Index 2023

Walk Free Business & Investor Toolkit

Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST)

Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018 Guidance for Reporting Entities

RIAA HRWG Investor Toolkit Human-Rights with a Focus on Supply Chains

ACSI Australian modern slavery statements review

Monash University Australian modern slavery statements review

Human Rights Law Centre & others Australian modern slavery statements review

More information

Asset owners and asset managers in the Asia-Pacific region interested in joining IAST APAC should contact the Secretariat.