The Empire Strikes Back! AML and the US CBP Forced Labor Process
Star Wars fans will be familiar with the title of Episode V of the epic space franchise; in modern day reality, the “Empire” (in this case, in the form of the United States Customs & Border Protection - US
The risk of DPRK labour in your supply chain
In its landmark report “Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour” (2014), the International Labour Organization (ILO) outlined three areas of exploitation from human trafficking, the world’s 3rd largest criminal activity (by revenue) generating an estimated USD$150 billion