Human Rights Groups to Fund Forced Labor Investigations to Find Links to US Imports
Humanity United and the Freedom Fund are seeking applicants for grants that will be used "to conduct on-the-ground investigations and evidence collection to link forced labor practices with specific U.S. imports," the groups said in a request for proposals released…
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last month. The effort, called the Tariff Act Legal Fund, "aims to catalyze enforcement of the import ban by supporting civil society organisations to collect and submit evidence to CBP," the groups said. The legal fund will provide for grants of $25,000 to $40,000 to as many as five CSOs, the groups said. The CSO will be expected to file a formal forced labor petition with CBP at the end of the grant period, the RFP said. "While the fund does not focus on specific countries or industries," proposals should involve goods mentioned on the Labor Department's list on goods made with forced or child labor and should not already be the subject of a CBP withhold release order. Application forms are due Sept. 16.