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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.
Develop Commitments & Governance, Enhance Monitoring, Examine Purchasing Practices
2020 Information and Communication Technology benchmark findings report
KnowTheChain assesses the 49 largest global information and communication technology companies on efforts to address forced labor risks in their supply chains. […]
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Read PDFDevelop Commitments & Governance, Examine Purchasing Practices, Improve Traceability & Risk Assessment
Fair Labor Association, Forced labor risk in Zinjiang, China
This briefing explains what forced labor risks are presented when sourcing from the Xinjiang region of China and recommendations of steps companies can take to address such risks. […]
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Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), Business Action Against Forced Labour
This publication provides examples of how consumer facing companies implement the CGF Priority Industry Principles, a set of principles aimed at addressing forced labor. […]
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Read ArticleCollaborate, Improve Recruitment, Learn About Forced Labor Risk
Alliance 8.7 and others, Interactive map of anti-human trafficking organisations
The Interactive Map for Business of Anti-Human Trafficking Organisations and the accompanying report is a resource for companies to navigate emerging partners and resources; for all anti-trafficking organisations; and the general public to improve coordination on the eradication of modern slavery, and a baseline from which existing and newly formed initiatives can move forward. […]
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Read ArticleIncorporate Worker Voice
Investor Snapshot: Forced Labor in the Construction Sector
Construction is the second-highest-risk sector for forced labor (after domestic work), with an estimated 4.5 million construction workers in forced labor around the world.9 Exploitation in the construction sector occurs across the globe, from Angola, China and Qatar to Russia, the UK, and the USA. […]
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2018 Apparel and Footwear benchmark findings report
KnowTheChain assesses the efforts of 43 global apparel and footwear companies to address forced labor risks in their supply chains. […]
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Read PDFDevelop Commitments & Governance, Enhance Monitoring, Examine Purchasing Practices
2018 Food and Beverage benchmark findings report
KnowTheChain assesses the efforts of 38 global food and beverage companies to address forced labor risks in their supply chains. […]
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Read PDFDevelop Commitments & Governance, Enhance Monitoring, Examine Purchasing Practices
2018 ICT benchmark findings report
KnowTheChain assesses the efforts of 40 large global ICT companies to address forced labor risks in their supply chains. […]
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Read PDFEnhance Monitoring, Improve Recruitment
FLA, Addressing risks of forced labor in supply chains
This briefing focuses on best practices for identifying and eradicating forced labor at the supplier level. It explains the indicators of forced labor in the FLA code, provides examples of risks and violations reported by the FLA’s on-the-ground assessors, and recommends steps that brands can take to ensure suppliers do not engage in or tolerate […]
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