Supplier Management

EXPOsed: Discrimination and forced labour practices at Expo 2020 Dubai
Publications
02 February 2022

Expo 2020 Dubai could not have taken place without migrant workers who make up more than 90% of private sector employees in the UAE. With more than 40,000 workers employed in the construction process alone. Similarly, the delivery of the...

COVID-19 and Modern Slavery: A Research Response
COVID-19 resourcesPublications
01 December 2020

COVID-19 represents a large and sudden exogenous shock to the world. The pandemic itself and the measures being undertaken to slow its pace and effect have short, medium, and long-term impacts on the problem of modern slavery. We have formulated...

Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for human rights and modern slavery vulnerabilities in global value chains
Publications
01 August 2020

Written by Hinrich Voss. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed vulnerabilities and fragilities in global value chains. The worldwide economic lockdowns to contain COVID-19 have led in some industries to unilateral cancellations and suspensions of orders from overseas suppliers by transnational...

Navigating through your supply chain: Toolkit for Prevention of Labour Exploitation and Trafficking
Publications
11 May 2020

This risk management toolkit has been developed in the context of the EU-funded FLOW-project.1 Its purpose is to give companies a brief overview of what labour exploitation and trafficking are, as well as to demonstrate the risks for businesses, and...

Supplier Responsibility
Good PracticesPublications
01 January 2019

This 2019 Annual Progress Report outlines Apple’s efforts in 2018.

The G20 Obligation – Achieving Sustainable, Fair, and Inclusive Global Supply Chains
Publications
01 December 2018

Modern Slavery is an umbrella term that captures the range of multifaceted and complex crimes, which include all forms of human trafficking, forced labour, debt bondage, forced or servile marriage, and the worst forms of child labour. We know that...

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