Richard Howitt

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582 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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Frankly Speaking - A Podcast on Responsible Business · #117 How Businesses Can Combat Modern Slavery: Professor John Dumay · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

because of this issue so I think that will raise the eyebrows of some companies to deal with modern slavery we're nearing the end of our time but let's look forward to the future UK Australia Canada more recently it's the sort of Anglo-Saxon world that forced labour provisions have made most progress how do you see that developing in the future?

And there is now so much information around about which of the high risk regions and countries and sectors that it's relatively easy for companies to access those.

And again, no excuse for them not to do so.

Final question.

You talked about the very extensive work you did in the cocoa and chocolate sector as part of examining modern slavery.

issues and when you finished that work you said and i quote you personally i've got off chocolate produced by the big companies all together um unquote um i'm not going to ask you if you stuck to that but i am going to ask you what would need to happen by those big companies for you to say yes i'll eat your chocolate again

And, of course, we had Tony Straccolone on the podcast describing in detail how they did due diligence in West Africa.

So, again, to our listeners, feel free to look back at that.

Sadly, we have run out of time, John.

Thank you for such an interesting discussion today.

In this podcast, we've heard how modern slavery legislation has led to increased awareness and visibility about the challenges of dealing with modern slavery.

To governments, John has said...

like the Swedish government, work with your companies to help them implement the intention behind the legislation.

And to companies, he'd said, make sure that you're working to support victims.

It's not an embarrassment anymore.

Everyone knows that modern slavery is there.

It's a cop-out if you don't address it.

And he finished by saying that the future of modern slavery legislation initiatives is going to be about having to positively show that you haven't got modern slavery within your supply chains, that you are clean and clear.

Thanks very much to Professor John Dume for joining the Frankly Speaking podcast.

Thank you very much.

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