Exactly three years after the passage of the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act, KnowTheChain reviewed how more than 100 companies in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector are responding to the law. We found that of the 102 companies analyzed for our latest report, only...
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...
A report published by Verité today reveals a link between unregulated, illegal gold mining and human trafficking in Latin America, a connection that can have deep "legal and reputational risks for major companies with gold in their supply chains.” In 2013, Latin America supplied 20% of...
The refugee and humanitarian crisis is having huge and far reaching impacts across the Middle East and Europe, but our recent research suggests many garment brands are failing to grasp the human rights risks that this mass movement of people brings to their supply chain....
CORE and our partner organisations led the campaign for the introduction of the Transparency in Supply Chains clause into the Modern Slavery Act 2015. The clause requires all companies operating in the UK with a turnover of more than £36 million to publish an annual...
Humanity United CEO Randy Newcomb writes on the responsibility of corporations to address slavery and abuse in supply chains. ...
KnowTheChain Project Director Kilian Moote writes for SupplyManagement.com on how California’s supply chain transparency law has paved the way for national and international legislation. ...
KnowTheChain Project Director Kilian Moote writes for Triple Pundit on the implications of the 2015 TIP Report’s attention on supply chains and what it means for the private sector. ...
New proposed legislation in Senate would require companies to disclose anti-trafficking policies that ensure supply chains are slavery and human trafficking-free. This follows the release of the 2015 TIP report, which placed special attention on addressing slavery and abuse in supply chains...
The Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act of 2015 was introduced to Congress on Tuesday, seeking to require large public companies to annually disclose efforts to combat trafficking and labor abuses in their supply chains. The bill emphasizes the centrality of business...