European shipping companies are knowingly sending their end-of-life ships for scrap in dangerous and polluting yards in Bangladesh. This report reveals a network used by shipowners to circumvent international regulations prohibiting the export of ships to facilities like those in Bangladesh that do not have adequate environmental or labor protections.

This report highlights New Zealand’s most risky goods, as well as how other countries are looking into supply chains and addressing imports linked to child labour and forced labour.

This discussion paper seeks New Zealanders' views on whether the country should ratify the International Labour Organization 2014 Forced Labour Protocol, a binding treaty-level instrument addressing issues of modern slavery and forced labour.