Breaking The Chain

Governance professionals have the very fortunate position to help guide boards and companies to endeavor for a supply chain free of modern slavery

I can't help but wonder whether adding the word 'modern' to the universally recognised and abhorred word 'slavery' somehow makes it more acceptable. Whether to refer to something as modern suggests actually it's all a bit more civilised these days, more state of the art, more impressive perhaps. When we hear about 'modern slavery', are we beginning to be de-sensitised to it? Do we read about the shocking discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated lorry in Essex and give it more than a passing thought? Do we ever as consumers thinkthat we may be indirectly responsible for or support slavery?