Slavefreetrade
| Formation | Non-profit Association |
|---|---|
| Founder | Brian Iselin |
| Type | International Non-Governmental Organisation |
| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Services | Human rights workplace assessment and monitoring |
| Fields | human rights, modern slavery, human trafficking, business and human rights |
Official language | English |
| Brian Iselin (President), Paola Garieri (Treasurer), Marco Colacchia (Secretary) | |
Key people | Brian Iselin (CVO and President), Hon Justice Key Oagile Dingake (Patron), Susanne Fries-Palm (COO), Marco Colacchia (CFO), Sumati Mattu (CMO), Jessica Westerouen van Meeteren (CCO), Nelleke van Heerikhuize (CCO), Ann Duffy (CIO), Jerome Clement (CTO), Gail Lunt (Chief of Staff), Daniel Voicu (CISO) |
Staff | 152 |
| Website | http://slavefreetrade.org |
slavefreetrade is a Rightstech project founded in Novermber 2018 by Brian Iselin. It is a Swiss NGO aiming to being consumers and business together to overturn modern slavery, to build a global economy founded on goods and services that have harmed nobody in their making.
slavefreetrade is a Swiss non-profit association formed under the Swiss Civil Code. It has tax-exempt status in Switzerland. Its first Patron was the UN Special Rapporteur for Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Ms Urmila Bhoola. Its current Patron, since April 2019, is Hon. Justice Key Oagile Dingake, of the High Court of Botswana, Special Court of Sierra Leone, and the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea.
Aims[edit]
The thinking around how to overcome human rights abuses such as modern slavery in supply chains has been focused for decades on punitive measures, identifying bad actors and punishing them or excluding them or destroying them. The bulk of actions taken to date are described as "supply side" measures. Little if any attention has been paid to demand-side measures[1], including mobilising consumers and businesses - professional and amateur 'demandeurs'. The approach taken by slavefreetrade is 180 degrees from existing approaches; reward actors for being good and making things the way consumers and businesses want them made. Create a global economy you can only be a part of if you are a good actor doing the right thing by your people. The model puts people back in the picture; the "human supply chain".
Tools[edit]
The central product of slavefreetrade is a platform for human rights compliance. It is the world's first Human Rights Compliance Platform. It is a hybrid of blockchain and conventional technology [2] This tool works for any organisation with workplaces and people; they are the unit of measure. The platform pits organisations that register with it against three processes; values alignment, supply chain discovery and mapping, and workforce enrolment. The platform confirms the legal compliance of organizations on human rights and modern slavery law.
It charts and maps every supplier in a supply chain[3], and connects with them. It identifies worksites in organisations and worksites of their supply chains. It connects with every member of staff of those worksites, It asks them human rights questions in real time, and assembles the data.
A thought leader in blockchain for social impact[4], slavefreetrade was invited to participate in the Volkswagen Supply Chain Sustainability Hackathon in Berlin, November 2018[5]. Acccording to Ethereum coder, Sebastian Coates, slavefreetrade is also the first NGO in the world to grasp blockchain for countering modern slavery.[6]
Human Rights Framework[edit]
The human rights framework used is a tailored, unique development comprising 10 principles derived from international human rights law. It is the first such framework for decent work to be developed based solely on international human rights law.
Zero Knowledge[edit]
slavefreetrade deploys its own proprietary zero knowledge application for enroling and engaging with staff. This smartphone-based app is used for staff to receive questions and provide answers in real time, all the time, in a 100% confidential, anonymous way. In this app, users are only identified by a cryptographic hash function ('hash') which is a proprietary algorithm that maps data of arbitrary size to a bit string of a fixed size, a QR Code. slavefreetrade's hashing feature is a one-way function, effectively impossible to invert (crack).
SMS is also used for enroling staff in the platform but this is not yet possible in a zero knowledge form.
Apps[edit]
In late 2018, they announced that a consumer app was forthcoming that allows shoppers to find and interrogate slave-free products, campaign for those products they wish to buy slave-free, and report possible modern slavery incidents.
They recently also announced an e-procurement application is forthcoming, that provides procurement agencies a shortcut to human rights compliance assessment for tenderers.
Founder[edit]
The founder of slavefreetrade, and present CVO and President is Mr Brian Iselin [7], an Australian and Swedish national, former Australian Army Intelligence Corps soldier and Federal Agent. He has been a modern slavery operator for the last 17 years. He has served as Regional Legal Expert to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on human trafficking, special advisor on human trafficking to the European Commission Daphne Program and gender-based violence. He has been engaged in human trafficking and modern slavery projects in almost 50 countries, including with the UN Development Program (UNDP), AusAid, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (RWI), the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), and the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO).
Recognition[edit]
In 2018, slavefreetrade was named by The Impact Lab as one of the world's Top Ten Blockchain for Social Impact Thought Leaders.[8]</ref>
In October 2019, slavefreetrade was a winner for a Fellowship in the Geneva-based Hatch CoLab Social Impact Accelerator Program.
In October 2019, slavefreetrade was admitted to the Oracle Startup Accelerator Program.
References[edit]
- ↑ https://media.consensys.net/state-change-44-shining-a-light-on-slavery-eeae67594af3
- ↑ https://medium.com/@brianiselin67/the-forms-of-blockchain-slavefreetrades-use-case-84cf34c4e2c1] Medium, 27 October 2018.
- ↑ https://www.longhash.com/news/using-blockchain-to-fight-slavery
- ↑ https://medium.com/@impactchainlab/10-social-impact-thought-leaders-of-2017-we-can-learn-from-in-2018-311be01cc43
- ↑ https://n3xtcoder.org/ventures/slavefreetrade
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7lsqxo/slavefreetrade_is_the_first_nonprofit_in_the/
- ↑ https://ch.linkedin.com/in/brianiselin-slavefreetrade
- ↑ [1] The Impact Lab Retrieved 3 Aug. 2019
External links[edit]
- Portuguese Crime Victims Agency Begins Collaboration with slavefreetrade
- Sense&Sustainability Interview with slavefreetrade Founder and CEO
- slavefreetrade Participant in VW's Blockchain for Social Impact Hackathon
- slavefreetrade cited as a leading tool for corporate sustanability
- Review of blockchain potential for countering modern slavery
- Review of digital and blockchain technology applications for social impact
- Blockchain for Sustainability and Transaprency in Supply Chains
- Forbes article on why blockchain is needed for solutions for supply chains
- Initiatives of Change Foundation - slavefreetrade and ethical leadership in business
- slavefreetrade and technology as a game changer in business and human rights
- slavefreetrade as a leading new tool for business corporate sustainability
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