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Our benchmarks, analysis and practical tools help companies identify forced labour risks and potential impacts across supply chains. We use our research to compel corporate action to tackle and remediate practices that enable exploitation in supply chains.
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Good Practice Guide 2024
Drawing on data collected by KnowTheChain over eight years of benchmarking global multinational companies across three sectors: Apparel & Footwear, Food & Beverage and ICT, this Guide is a resource for companies and investors seeking to understand what strong corporate practice and disclosure looks like with respect to a range of key elements of upstream supply chain human rights due diligence.
KnowTheChain 2023 A&F Benchmark Findings
KnowTheChain 2023 F&B Benchmark Findings
KnowTheChain 2022 ICT Benchmark Findings
KnowTheChain benchmark methodology 2024-2025
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We provide companies with the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the issue and appreciate how their actions to address forced labour compare to others in their field. We do this through our signature benchmark reports, our resources page, and ongoing engagement with stakeholders.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
See the latest reports and news from KnowTheChain to help companies all over the world improve their labour practices.
Closing the gap: Evidence for effective human rights due diligence from five years measuring company efforts to address forced labour
Mind the Gap: Migrant Workers Need Respect for Rights, not Commitments on Paper (2021)
With a focus on recruitment fees, this briefing examines the commitments companies make and the steps they take to ensure that migrant workers’ rights are respected.
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BSR, Good Practice Guide: Global Migration
This document provides policy guidance and examples of good practice to companies on key issues linked to international labor migration. […]
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Verité, Fair Hiring Toolkit: Reporting & Transparency
This section of Verité’s Fair Hiring Toolkit provides guidance on reporting and transparency in supply chains, including advice pertaining to policies, training, audits, remediation, and stakeholder engagement. […]
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WEST Principles
The Worker Engagement Support by Technology (WEST) are a set of industry guidelines developed to help understand how technology can best facilitate deeper engagement with workers within global supply chains. The objective is to provide a common point of reference for stakeholders, companies, workers, and tech providers on how to develop and deploy worker-centered technologies. […]
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ILO, Promoting Decent Work in Rural Supply Chains
A report that provides perspective on how to ensure workers deep in the supply chain can be protected. The guide provides an understanding of what effective worker empowerment looks like. […]
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ETI, Integrating ethical trade principles into core business practices
Guide to help drive companies towards understanding what business practices might need in order to align with a commitment to ethical trade. […]
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CSR Europe, Blueprint for embedding human rights in key company functions
A practical guide that can help companies determine what company functions and departments might have an adverse and unintentional impact on human rights and what they can do about it. […]
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IHRB, Forced Labor
This briefing provides information for companies and other stakeholders about forced labor and identifies company practices that increase risk in supply chains. […]
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UN Global Compact, et al., A Guide for Integrating Human Rights into Business Management
This guide is designed as a practical toolkit to help companies integrate practices consistent with human rights into existing management systems. […]
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Verité, Responsible Sourcing Tool
This set of tools provides practical guidance and information to contractors on addressing risks of human trafficking in US federal procurement supply chains. […]
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