Ignoring the irony of the US filing a report on abuses that occur as a result of a war on terror, the facts presented were appalling.
"The way to conduct ethical foreign policy in these circumstances is to complain about abuses that occur and make sure action is taken," Mr Blair told the BBC before the visit.
New York's protection of laborers should be a first step toward recognition of the other systemic abuses that occur on farms that, like the long-ignored rights of farm workers, have been constantly disregarded by legislators.
Refugee camps, with their concentration of the powerless and the traumatised, are even more susceptible to the abuses that occur in villages, towns and cities everywhere.
The "Myth of the Ethical Shopper", published by Highline last week, painted a disturbing and all too accurate picture of the human rights and environmental abuses that occur in fast fashion supply chains.
When an A-list woman celebrity has the box-office clout to point out this well-known financial fact, she nevertheless shrinks from sharing the myriad of physical and emotional abuses that occur daily and which many others, her makeup artist, for example, remain powerless to protest.
