In 2016, KnowTheChain ranked 60 companies across three high-risk sectors on their efforts to eradicate forced labour from their global supply chains. Selecting some of the largest companies in information and communications technology (ICT), food and beverage, and apparel and footwear, worth a combined market capitalization of more than US $4 trillion, KnowTheChain produced three benchmarks.
This report is an analysis of these benchmarks, including cross-sector comparisons, examples of best practice, and recommendations on common areas where companies can improve.
In the last five years, there has been growing attention and investments into prevalence estimates. The increasing investment into prevalence estimates is much welcomed, but it has also led to fragmented efforts among researchers. People at The ...Read More
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), an estimated 21 million people are victims of forced labor around the world. As defined by the ILO, forced labor refers to “situations in which persons are coerced to work through the use o...Read More
Executive Summary The risk of forced labour is pervasive across today’s food and beverage supply chains: from tea pickers on tea estates to crew members on fishing vessels and labourers on cattle and poultry ranches, cocoa farms, and rice mills. ...Read More
This is the first in a series of four reports. This report includes the ranking of asset managers, and analysis of their performance on stewardship, transparency and governance. The following three parts of this series, to be released in the coming ...Read More
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