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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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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.
2021 Apparel and Footwear Sector Benchmark
Read our assessment of how the largest apparel and footwear companies are responding to forced labor in supply chains. […]
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Read PDFKnowTheChain Apparel & Footwear Benchmark – Explore our Findings
Explore our findings by Region: Company due diligence efforts of companies in Asia, Europe, and North America. Subsector: Explore who is leading and lagging among apparel retailers, footwear companies, and luxury brands. Raw Materials: From bamboo, to cashmere and cotton—explore which raw materials may be produced with forced labor and to what extent companies are […]
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Mind the Gap: Migrant Workers Need Respect for Rights, not Commitments on Paper
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Addressing Forced Labor Risks in Lower Tiers of Electronics Supply Chains – Examples of Company Practice
While many companies fall short when it comes to addressing forced labor risks in lower tiers of their supply chains, there are examples of company practices from the ICT sector and beyond that demonstrate that managing forced labor risks across supply chain tiers is feasible—and how it can be done. Approaches include Supporting suppliers to […]
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Addressing Forced Labor Risks in Supply Chains: Risk Exposure and Efforts Undertaken by Asian Food & Beverage Companies
In its third benchmark on the sector, KnowTheChain assessed 43 of the largest global food and beverage companies, including seven Asian companies, on their efforts to address forced labor in their supply chains. This report focuses on the findings of Asian companies. […]
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2020 Food and Beverage benchmark findings report
KnowTheChain assesses the 43 largest global food and beverage companies on efforts to address forced labor in their supply chains. […]
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Supply Chain Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupts global supply chains. Workers in vulnerable conditions, including migrant, women, and temporary workers in global supply chains are particularly negatively impacted. The resources provide an overview of impacts on supply chain workers in sectors benchmarked by KnowTheChain. […]
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No One Should Have to Pay for a Job: Responsible Recruitment in ICT Supply Chains (2020)
The global electronics sector is comprised of powerful corporations—the 49 largest information communications and technology (ICT) companies have a combined market capitalization of US$5 trillion. In 2020, following benchmarks in 2016 and 2018, KnowTheChain evaluated these companies on their efforts to address forced labor and human trafficking in their supply chains, including their efforts to […]
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