Professor Martin-Ortega gives evidence before the UK Parliament Human Rights Joint Committee

On 5th March 2025 Professor Olga Martin-Ortega gave oral evidence to the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights' Inquiry on Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains. Her evidence focused my evidence on the need to include the public sector on the efforts to combat modern slavery in global supply chains and the support and resources public buyers need to be part of the solution rather than contributing to the problem of labour exploitation in the supply chains that they procure with public money and to provide the public services we all enjoy.

She gave evidence alongside Oliver Holland, partner at Leigh Day, and agreed with him on the on the need for a mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence obligations for business. She further provided arguments for the public sector to be included as recipient of such obligations.
The full evidence is available here Parliamentlive.tv - Human Rights (Joint Committee)