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Report

24 May 2017

Author:
G20 Labour & Employment Ministers

G20 Labour Summit: Ministerial Declaration pledges to promote sustainable global supply chains & protect labour rights for all workers

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We, the Ministers of Labour and Employment of the G20 and invited countries [...] commit to the following policy priorities: [...]

15. ...[W]e will contribute to [...] facilitat[ing] orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration of people (SDG 10.7), and to protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers and in particular women migrants (SDG 8.8)...

Fostering decent work for sustainable global supply chains...

21. ...[T]he G20 have a joint responsibility to promote decent work and a duty to protect fundamental principles and rights at work as a foundation for an inclusive global economy and fair globalisation. We also underline the responsibility of businesses...

23. We also commit to take immediate and effective measures, as called for by SDG 8.7, both in our own countries and globally, towards eradicating modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking, and by 2025 to end child labour in all its forms...

24. [To this end], countries could [...] consider:

a. developing national action plans [...] for responsible business conduct...

27. We underline the responsibility of businesses to exercise due diligence in line with the UN Guiding Principles [...] and we encourage our businesses to report on these due diligence procedures...

28. We underline the importance of providing access to remedy...

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