A case study exploring how Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance partnered with Exiger to adopt its supply chain visibility platform and pinpoint modern-day slavery problems across complex supply chains.
Hope for Justice is an NGO that was founded 16 years ago “to see an end to modern-day slavery, human trafficking and labor exploitation,” says chief executive officer and co-founder Tim Nelson. In 2018, it set up a division called the Slave-Free Alliance, working alongside multinationals to achieve that objective.
The organization can only work with the information that it has on hand, and Hope for Justice needed to undertake a gap analysis to identify where it could improve on its intelligence about global supply chains and their labor practices. “We realized that we needed a technology component that would give us visibility beyond that which we see ourselves,” Nelson says.
That’s where Exiger came into the picture. Nelson says Hope for Justice conducted an extensive review of the hundreds of providers selling visibility technology. Exiger was “head and shoulders above all others for how they could help us.”
Brandon Daniels, chief executive officer of Exiger, said the company was already exploring how it could provide services to companies looking to eliminate forced labor from their supply chains. In the case of one global electronics company, it was able to identify a previously hidden link revealing that the executive was under indictment for a fatal case of human trafficking. Exiger saw the partnership with Hope for Justice as an opportunity to extend its efforts to combat human slavery and “rehabilitate” supply chains.
Nelson says each company’s ecosystem is unique, requiring contacts with multiple organizations and individuals to smoke out instances of labor exploitation. Exiger provided the technology that made it possible, he says.
