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CSR Directory Adds New Category on Human Trafficking

The move by the Directory, published on CSRwire (Corporate Social Responsibility) reflects the rising relevance of this issue on the CSR radar screen.

Michael Kane, managing editor of the CSR Directory, has added a new category called "Organizations with Human Trafficking Programs."

Selecting this category in the Directory's search tool yields contact information for more than 150 organizations worldwide, including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), corporate leaders, media companies, universities, national governments, and international organizations.

The idea for this expansion came last summer, when Dave Batstone discussed his research for a book on human trafficking in the WAG, a weekly e-zine covering CSR-related issues. The book, entitled Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--and How We Can Fight It, hits shelves next week, and Batstone recently revisited the issue of human trafficking in the WAG.

The discussion centered on the work of David Arkless of Manpower to sign up 1,000 companies to the Athens Ethical Principles that call for zero tolerance of human trafficking. The CSR Directory lists Arkless as the contact person in its entry on End Human Trafficking Now! and the Athens
Principles, which also links to Manpower's site on trafficking--demonstrating the usefulness of the Directory in tracking CSR issues.

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