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Canada adopts new forced labor law

Children selling fruit in a mining operation in the DRC. Photo: Getty Images

The law is part of significant progress being made in an international effort to curb human rights abuses in supply chains.

Canada has passed a new law aimed at exposing the use of child labor and forced labor. The new law requires companies to report on their efforts to stop tainted goods from entering their supply chains.

On Wednesday, Canada’s House of Commons approved the legislation, known as Bill S-211

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