| Probably most products that you purchase and use. It's highly embedded in the global food, textile, and raw materials systems. Typically at the lowest levels. For example, Cobalt is a mineral that is used in virtually all batteries. The supply is heavily concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which notoriously utilizes slave and child labor to extract the mineral. Sure companies are trying to avoid slave extracted cobalt. However it is extremely difficult to do that. Slave operation A can just simply sell their product to Legitimate operation B and sneak into the supply chain. Some links on food / agricultural labor abuse:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/01/582214032/wa... https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/28/426888946/be... https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/29/521971468/in... And you can find articles on the textile industry's labor abuse everywhere online. It's not a new concept. Most consumers like you and me benefit from this via cheaper prices, and will not stop consumption patterns. |
Your second link has such a database. https://knowthechain.org
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