Last year, KnowTheChain identified three sectors with the highest risk of forced labor in their supply chains and benchmarked 60 companies within those sectors. It was the first analysis of its kind, focusing specifically on forced labor risks and the corporate policies and practices developed...
KnowTheChain released its third and final benchmark report of 2016 today, which ranks 20 of the largest apparel and footwear companies on their efforts to address forced labor in their supply chains. The average overall score of the 20 companies that were ranked across seven measurement...
Last week, Know the Chain released its Food and Beverage Benchmark Findings Report, which assessed how 20 of the largest publicly held companies are addressing forced labor in their supply chains. With 21 million people being victims of forced labor around the world and the...
KnowTheChain released its second benchmark report today, which ranks the 20 largest food and beverage companies on their efforts to address forced labor in their supply chains. Though the report shows that there is growing awareness surrounding the issue of forced labor, there is still far...
In June, we released our first benchmark report on the efforts of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector to mitigate forced labor in their supply chains. While the benchmark found that the ICT sector is showing some commitment and action, it is clear that...
To drive awareness and continued corporate action on the issue of forced labor in supply chains, this year KnowTheChain is benchmarking a total of 60 global companies from the information and communications technology (ICT), food & beverage, and apparel & footwear sectors on their efforts...
Today we released our first benchmark findings report on the efforts of Information and Communications Technology companies to mitigate forced labor in their supply chains. While the benchmark found that the ICT sector is showing some commitment and action, the overall scores make it clear there is...
To drive awareness and continued corporate action on the issue of forced labor in supply chains, this year KnowTheChain will be assessing corporate policies and practices across three sectors: information and communications technology (ICT), food & beverage, and apparel & footwear. Our first benchmark report on...
Last month we announced the 20 information and communications technology (ICT) companies we will be assessing this year in our first benchmark. As a part of the benchmarking process, we reached out those companies to offer them the opportunity to provide more information about their...
Earlier this year we announced our plan to conduct sector-level comparative benchmarking of corporate policies and practices to address forced labor in their supply chain. Today, we are publishing the methodology framework we developed to inform our benchmarking efforts. We are also announcing a list...