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[company name] Statement Against Modern Slavery and Child Labor

[year] statement

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), 40 million people were victims of modern slavery and 152 million children were subject to child labor globally in [year]. As the ILO reports:

1 in 4 victims of modern slavery are children.

Out of the 24.9 million people trapped in forced labour, 16 million people are exploited in the private sector such as domestic work, construction or agriculture; 4.8 million persons in forced sexual exploitation, and 4 million persons in forced labour imposed by state authorities.

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by forced labour, accounting for 99% of victims in the commercial sex industry, and 58% in other sectors.

[company name] deplores the presence and persistence of modern slavery and child labor, and takes seriously its responsibility to ensure that neither modern slavery nor child labor takes place in its supply chain or in any part of its business. ("Modern slavery" in this statement refers to slavery, forced or compulsory labor, trafficking, servitude, and workers who are imprisoned, indentured, or bonded. "Child labor" refers to work performed by someone under 16 years of age, or under 14 for light work, provided it is not confined to periods that interfere with the child's schooling and not in conditions that interfere with the child's health or well-being.)

In accordance with the UK Modern Slavery Act, and in alignment with the ILO 2014 Protocol to its Forced Labour Convention, ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals target 8.7, this 2018 Statement Against Modern Slavery and Child Labor ("the Statement") describes the steps [company name] has taken to prevent modern slavery and child labor from occurring in its business or supply chain.

[company name]'s structure, business, and supply chains

[company name] is a software development platform with its headquarters in San Francisco, and employees and contractors working in numerous countries.

All [company name] employees and individual independent contractors are voluntary and at-will. [company name] has a largely distributed workforce, and strives to provide competitive compensation and benefits to its employees and contractors regardless of location. This is true whether we hire independent contractors directly or through an intermediary.

[company name] does not conduct manufacturing or produce hardware, nor does [company name] use recruitment agencies for the kinds of services often performed by migrant workers. The nature of [company name]'s business does not subject it to sudden changes in workload or pricing pressures, which often drive demand for practices that increase the risk of forced labor in supply chains, such as forced overtime.

[company name] offers free and paid software and web-based software as a service to customers all over the world. [company name]'s products include:

[company name].com: web-based collaboration and code-hosting platform

[company name] Enterprise: on-premises collaboration and code hosting software

Electron: framework for writing cross-platform desktop apps

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