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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
Eradicating forced labor in electronics: What do company statements under the UK Modern Slavery Act tell us?
Three years after the passage of the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act, KnowTheChain reviewed how more than 100 global companies in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector are responding to the law. […]
Read PDFEnhance Monitoring, Improve Traceability & Risk Assessment, Incorporate Worker Voice
How food and beverage companies tackle forced labor risks in sugarcane supply chains
KnowTheChain’s case study examines how 10 food and beverage companies are addressing forced labor in their sugarcane supply chains. […]
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Read PDFEnhance Monitoring, Improve Recruitment, Undertake Due Diligence
Forced Labor Action Compared: Findings from Three Sectors
KTC’s cross-sector report that highlights findings within three sectors, and identified lessons and recommendations that can benefit companies across all sectors, with a specific focus on worker voice and remedy. […]
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Five Years of the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act
Five years after SB 657’s signing, KnowTheChain developed an insights brief with key lessons and recommendations, based on a sample set of 500 companies that KnowTheChain identified as impacted by SB 657. […]
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Apparel & Footwear Benchmark Findings Report
This report assesses the efforts of 20 of the largest global apparel and footwear companies to address forced labor in their supply chains. The ranking focuses on commitment and governance, traceability and risk assessment, purchasing practices, recruitment, worker voice, monitoring, and remedy. […]
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Core Coalition, Company Reporting on specific risks under the MSA
An analysis of 50 companies UK Modern Slavery Act statements who operate in sectors with known modern slavery risks. The report explores if and how companies include information on these raw material and sector-specific risks. […]
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United States Department of Labor, Comply Chain
The US Department of Labor app that guides the development of social compliance systems to address forced & child labor. […]
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Maplecroft, Modern Slavery Index 2017
The Modern Slavery Index 2017 assesses the risk to business of exposure to practices of slavery, servitude, trafficking in persons and forced labour. The index focuses on modern slavery risks at country level. […]
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ETI, Anti-Slavery International: Base Code Guidance: Modern Slavery
The guide helps businesses understand key concepts, legal definitions and their responsibility to tackle modern slavery. It provides examples to assist companies in applying ETI Base Code clauses on the prohibition of forced labor. […]
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