• Hidden Traffic with Gwen Hassan

  • By: Gwen Hassan
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Hidden Traffic with Gwen Hassan

By: Gwen Hassan
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  • What is human trafficking? What is modern slavery? Where does it show up in the daily life of an organization? Human trafficking doesn't always take the form we first imagine - it can be found at almost any level of an organization's supply chain. What can compliance professionals do to assess human trafficking risk and how can they leverage the resources of the organizations they work for to help root out this tragic problem? Gwen Hassan is here to help - this is Hidden Traffic.
    2021
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  • Shawn Askinosie and the Chocolate Factory

    Shawn Askinosie and the Chocolate Factory
    Jan 19 2023
    Shawn Askinosie is an author and the founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate. His book, Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul, takes readers on his journey to self-actualization and is a guide to how they can discover the secret to purposeful business. He was also named by Oprah Magazine as one of 15 Guys Who Are Saving the World, and by Forbes as one of the 25 Best Small Companies in America. Shawn joins Gwen Hassan to share how children are exploited in the cocoa beans industry and how Askinosie Chocolate mitigates their supply chain risks. Compliance professionals are often overextended and not taken care of. A compliance officer's role should not be viewed as solely to ensure compliance within a company, but also to coach and advise. The work of CSR and ESG departments should be diffused throughout the entire organization. It’s particularly important that these departments are led by lawyers, as they are in a unique position to advocate for change in a way that is credible. Askinosie Chocolate is a company that sources its cocoa beans directly from farmers, rather than through brokers like most other chocolate companies. They also pay farmers 55% more than the farmgate price and provide advanced payments to help finance the farmers' harvesting operations. This approach is called "direct trade" and is meant to create a more direct alignment between the chocolate maker and the farmer. This model also helps to mitigate issues like conflict minerals and child trafficking in the supply chain, which can occur when beans are shipped through multiple middlemen, and their origins are not transparent.  Resources Shawn Askinosie on the Web | LinkedIn | Twitter  Askinosie.com Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul
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    35 mins
  • 2022 in Review

    2022 in Review
    Dec 15 2022
    Hidden Traffic Podcast host Gwen Hassan reviews the year's developments in human trafficking prevention and shares what's next on the podcast. This year has seen a rise in human trafficking and climate change refugees. The United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) reported that there are 50 million people across the world who are currently being held in some form of modern slavery. Notable news stories around human trafficking include the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act coming into play and allegations against Tesla for sourcing their cobalt from child labor. A major issue in the corporate world coined the ‘Green Push,’ is the neglect of the ‘S’ in ESG.  You can't make the world better environmentally by reducing carbon output and addressing climate change issues while also enslaving children, Gwen remarks. Resources Gwen Hassan on LinkedIn
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    16 mins
  • Rock and Roll Against Human Trafficking with Noel Thomas

    Rock and Roll Against Human Trafficking with Noel Thomas
    Dec 1 2022
    Noel Thomas is CEO of Zero Trafficking, a data company bringing innovative data, analysis, and training solutions to the frontlines of anti-trafficking. He joins host Gwen Hassan to discuss how Zero Trafficking is using technology in the fight against human trafficking.  Prior to founding his company, Noel toured the world as the bass guitarist of a rock band. It was during one of these tours in 2007 that he first got exposed to the issue of human trafficking through a flyer aiming to raise awareness. It inspired him to learn more about human trafficking and join the efforts to eradicate it. Rather than manually looking for human trafficking online, Noel and the task forces he worked with thought of a better way to bring technology into the space. They quickly realized that corporations like social media platforms, banks, and even real estate developers could also benefit from this data; they could use it to up their compliance and mitigate the risks involved with human trafficking.  Resources Noel Thomas on LinkedIn Zero Trafficking
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    16 mins
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