Paper Chains
Welcome to Paper Chains, a podcast that takes a deep dive into key reports, uncovering exploitation, labor abuses, and global supply chain tracking. This series is a project of Five24, dedicated to shining a light on the facts behind the headlines.
Episodes
11 episodes
Episode 11 - The Global Scorecard: Inside the 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report
n this episode of Paper Chains, we unpack the 2025 U.S. Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, one of the world’s most influential assessments of how governments respond to human trafficking. Covering more than 180 countries, the ...
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Episode 11
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Episode 10 - Climate Migration and the Future of Exploitation
In this episode of Paper Chains, we zoom out from the reports we’ve explored on climate vulnerability and infrastructure breakdown to examine the bigger picture: how climate-driven migration is reshaping global labor markets and traffi...
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Episode 10
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37:42
Episode 9 - Broken Systems: How Climate Infrastructure Failures Create Trafficking Risk
In this episode of Paper Chains, we examine a report from the International Organization for Migration exploring how failing infrastructure—roads, water systems, housing, and energy networks—can increase vulnerability to human traffick...
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Episode 9
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Episode 8 - When Climate Crisis Becomes Trafficking Risk: Gender, Migration, and Exploitation
In this episode of Paper Chains, we unpack a powerful report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) examining how climate change is increasing vulnerability to human trafficking—especially for women and girls. As envir...
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Episode 8
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Episode 7 - Farmers Have No Freedom: Hidden Controls Behind Uzbekistan’s Cotton and Wheat
In this episode of Paper Chains, we unpack the Human Rights Watch report “Farmers Have No Freedom”, which exposes how cotton and wheat farmers in Uzbekistan face coercive quotas, state control, land insecurity, and conditions ...
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Episode 7
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Episode 6 - Pathways to Change – Smelters, Skills, and Sesame
Welcome to Episode 6 of the Paper Chains Podcast — where we unpack major reports on exploitation and human trafficking and talk through what we’ve read to make these often dense documents more accessible and understandable for everyone. This ep...
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Episode 6
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31:10
Episode 5 – Reframing Child Labour Due Diligence: Insights from Fifty Eight’s Report
Welcome to Episode 5 of the Paper Chains Podcast — where we unpack major reports on exploitation and human trafficking and talk through what we’ve read to make these often dense documents more accessible and understandable for everyone. This ep...
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Episode 5
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34:31
Episode 4 - From Report to Reality: What Changed (and What Didn’t) Between 2023 and 2024
In this episode of Paper Chains, we compare the 2023 and 2024 U.S. Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Reports to uncover what’s really changed in the global fight against human trafficking. From shifting country rankings to policy reversals ...
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Episode 4
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56:10
Episode 3 - The 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report
Welcome back to Paper Chains. In this episode, we dive into the 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report—the U.S. State Department’s flagship assessment of how countries around the world are fighting (or failing to fight) human trafficking. ...
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Episode 3
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40:22
Episode 2 - The 2023 U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report
In this episode, we unpack key insights from the 2023 U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report, highlighting how human trafficking continues to evolve globally. We explore how governments, NGOs, survivors, and even banks are teaming up to fight explo...
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Episode 2
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Episode 1 - UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024
Welcome to this episode of the podcast, where we take a deep dive into the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. This is the seventh edition of the report, and it's a big...
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Episode 1
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