Fair Futures advises organisations on how to embed human rights, especially anti-slavery practices, into their operations alongside environmental goals.
We work with you to build a world where business thrives, communities flourish, and social impact is at the heart of every decision.
Businesses need to rapidly decarbonise at scale and speed. It’s a “green rush”.
But there are human rights challenges buried in value chains, including forced labour and slavery. Businesses are just one player in a larger set of systems.
Through deep stakeholder engagement and research, we work with clients to diagnose complex human rights challenges, and to design and build strategies that address immediate risk, and drive systems change.
Helmed by Founder and CEO Fiona David, Fair Futures approaches these issues with fresh thinking, drawing a track record of building viable solutions to complex system level problems like forced labour and slavery from the ground up.
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Fiona David, CEO and Founder
Our director was the architect of the Global Slavery Index, an internationally cited source on modern slavery that has driven legal and policy change around the world. With over 25 years of experience getting to the roots of forced labour and slavery worldwide, we’ll help your organisation make informed decisions about risk, and chart a course that prioritises business imperatives alongside human rights and sustainability.
Directing capital to drive social impact is both an art and a science. We have been entrusted by leading philanthropists, UN organisations and foundations to design initiatives that deliver measurable social impact on critical human rights and sustainability challenges. We can work with you to embed evidence-based approaches to delivering social impact, through your philanthropic investments or your investments and business strategy.
Fair Futures draws on deep expertise in systems and processes required to enable safe migration and decent work for migrant workers. This is particularly relevant for organisations that rely on high proportions of migrant unskilled labour. We can help you identify and respond to risk in the labour migration process, and develop well-considered programs of remediation where problems are identified.
The PMs announcement of the Future Made in Australia Act (FMAA) offers hope for the future of green industry and manufacturing in Australia. But what hope does it offer for labour and human rights?
What matters most to survivors of modern slavery in the design of the Federal Anti-Slavery Commissioner role?
This is an important question that we sought to answer, drawing on interviews with people with lived experience.
Australian law does not currently recognise any right to a healthy environment. This could change, if reforms proposed by the Australian Human Rights Commission are accepted and given effect in law. In this Insight, Tahlia McDonald explains why these proposed reforms matter to them, and why they should matter to you.
Australia's competition regulator has sought input on its draft guidance on “Sustainability collaborations and Australian competition law.” While Fair Futures supports efforts to enable business collaboration on sustainability, in our view, the current guidance falls well short of clearing the path to corporate collaboration on the genuinely pre-competitive aspects of sustainability due diligence. We recommend developing a fit for purpose regime on competition, specific to sustainability.
Fair Futures Submission ACCC Sustainability GuidanceWhat matters most to survivors of modern slavery in the design of the Federal Anti-Slavery Commissioner role? This is an important question that this submission aims to answer from the perspective of lived experience. In January 2024, we interviewed six survivors of modern slavery in Australia, to understand their views on the Bill before the Committee. This submission is based on those interviews.
Fair Futures Submission Antislavery Commissioner Bill 22 Jan 2024This report was prepared for the International Organization of Migration (IOM). Empirical research undertaken in early 2023 generated new insights into the irregular migration intentions of Lebanese nationals.
Lost Hope, Lost Lives: Insights Into Lebanese Irregular MigrationThis submission examines some of the human rights issues embedded in Australia’s transition to a ‘net zero’ economy. This illustrates the urgent need for comprehensive, national human rights reform.
Human Rights Act Submission Fiona David David TicklerThis submission suggests several improvements to the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), including closing gaps between existing legislation and the international legal framework.
Criminal Code Submission, Fiona David And Olivia HicksThis Inquiry is considering a statutory duty for lawmakers to take the health and wellbeing of future generations into account when making 'significant decisions' regarding climate change. In this submission, the co-authors strongly advocate for the passage of the proposed legislation.
Submission To Inquiry Into A Duty Of Care, Fiona David And Tahlia McdonaldIn this paper, Fair Future's Fiona David and Shannon Hobbs outline the forced labour risks embedded in Western Australia's energy transition supply chains, and advocate for action to be taken to adequately combat these risks.
Modern Slavery Risk And WA's Clean Energy Plan