Our values and principles

CJP does not allow any partner, supplier, sub-contractor, agent, or any individual engaged by CJP to engage in human trafficking or modern slavery. 

This policy applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, interns, agents, contractors, external consultants, third-party representatives, and business partners. 

1. What is human trafficking and modern slavery? 
2. Our approach to preventing human trafficking and modern slavery
3. The commitment we expect from partners 

Slavery: Exercising powers of ownership over a person.

Servitude: The obligation to provide services is imposed by the use of coercion

Forced or compulsory labor: encompasses the range of activities—recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining—involved when a person uses force or physical threats, psychological coercion, abuse of the legal process, deception, or other coercive means to compel someone to work

Human trafficking: Arranging or facilitating the travel of another person with a view to their exploitation 

Modern slavery, including human trafficking, is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labor, orphanage trafficking, and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person's liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain. We have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery, and we are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our organisation.

We are also committed to ensuring there is transparency in our own organisation and in our approach to tackling modern slavery with our partners, consistent with our national and international disclosure obligations, and shall comply with all applicable laws, statutes, regulations and codes from time to time in force, including: 

• Section 307 of the U.S. Tariff Act: This section prohibits the importation of goods produced by convict labor, forced labor, or indentured labor;
• Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000: This act, as amended, defines modern slavery as involuntary servitude, slavery, debt bondage, and forced labor;
• USAID ADS 303 Mandatory Standard Provision, Trafficking in Persons (July 2015); and
• International Labor Standards on Child Labor and Forced Labor. 

CJP is committed to preventing human trafficking, orphanage trafficking, and modern slavery, including through the following means: 

Awareness: Ensuring that all staff and those who work with CJP are aware of the problem of human trafficking and modern slavery. 

Prevention: Ensuring, through awareness and good practice, that staff and those who work with CJP minimise the risks of human trafficking and modern slavery. 

Reporting: Ensuring that all staff and those who work with CJP are clear on what steps to take where concerns arise regarding allegations of human trafficking and modern slavery. 

Responding: Ensuring that action is taken to identify and address cases of human trafficking and modern slavery. 

To help you identify cases of human trafficking and modern slavery, the following are examples of prohibited categories of behavior: 

• 'Chattel slavery', in which one person owns another person
• ‘Bonded labor’ or ‘debt bondage’, which is when a person's work is the security for a debt – effectively the person is on 'a long lease' which they cannot bring to an end, and so cannot leave their 'employer'. Often the conditions of employment can be such that the laborer can't pay off their debt and is stuck for life, because of low wages, deductions for food and lodging, and high interest rates.
• ‘Serfdom’, which is when a person has to live and work for another on the other's land. 
• Other forms of forced labor, such as when passports are confiscated (sometimes by unscrupulous recruitment agencies) from migrant workers to keep them in bondage, or when a worker is 'kept in captivity' as a domestic servant. If a supplier or contractor appears to impose excessively harsh working conditions, or excessively poor wages, then you should always be alive to the possibility that a form of forced labor is occurring, and take care with your due diligence.
• ‘Child slavery’, which is the transfer of a young person (under 18) to another person so that the young person can be exploited. Child labor may, in fact, be a form of child slavery, and should not be tolerated. See the CJP Child Safeguarding Policy for further details. 
• ‘Marital and sexual slavery’, including forced marriage, the purchase of women for marriage, forced prostitution, or other sexual exploitation of individuals through the use or threat of force or other penalty. 
• Orphanage trafficking: actively recruiting children into an orphanage (institution) for exploitation or profit, paying for a child to be placed in an orphanage, falsifying a child’s documents in order to place them in an orphanage, keeping children in poor conditions in order to solicit donations, or forcing children in orphanages to perform or beg for donations.

We expect the same high standards from all of our contractors, suppliers and other business partners, and as part of our contracting processes, we may include specific prohibitions against the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked labor, or anyone held in slavery or servitude, whether adults or children, and we expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards. 

Please contact CJP if you have further questions.