Question: Does the company’s statement identify specific geographic regions (e.g. Indonesia), industries (e.g. agriculture), resources (e.g. Palm Oil) or types of workforce (e.g. migrant workers) where the risk of modern slavery is the greatest?"
Answer:
Geographic,
Workforce
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L Brands
2019
Unverified - Added by Steward
updated over 3 years ago by Lucia Ixtacuy

"Experts report that foreign migrant workers who travel across country borders to obtain employment are most vulnerable to modern slavery. Therefore, we have established a policy to ensure that we minimize any risk of modern slavery in our supply chain......"

 

"Because of the reports documenting systemic use of forced labor (including the worst forms of child labor) in the harvest of cotton in both Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, we have adopted a policy that prohibits the sourcing of Uzbek and Turkmen cotton in the manufacturing of any of our products until their respective governments end the practice of forced labor, including child labor, in the cotton sector.:

 

"L Brands prohibits its suppliers from using conflict minerals which may directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its adjoining countries in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals Provisions. Conflict Minerals Reports filed by L Brands can be viewed as part of our SEC filings."

Lucia Ixtacuy.....2021-01-06 14:18:33 UTC