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briefing Transition Minerals Tracker: 2025 Global Analysis
Our yearly review underscores the critical importance of a just energy transition guided by three core principles: shared prosperity; robust human rights due diligence and worker, community and defender rights protections; and fair negotiation between business, workers and communities.
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briefing Bitter truth: Migrant worker abuse in the production of sugar, cocoa and coffee in Chiapas
Agricultural workers cultivating, picking and packing coffee, cocoa and sugarcane in Mexico's most southerly state face harsh working conditions and various forms of abuse within a highly informal sector. We map the key players across the export sector and analyse salient human rights risks.
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briefing Centring risks to migrant workers in investment portfolios: Guidance for investors
Migrant workers are at heightened risk of exposure to unfair recruitment, exploitation and abusive living conditions, which can also pose serious, numerous risks to companies and investors. We explore cases from our database to highlight the links between risks to workers and these risks to capital, with recommendations for responsible investors.
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briefing 2025 KnowTheChain ICT benchmark
KnowTheChain assesses the 45 largest global ICT companies on their efforts to address forced labour risks
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briefing KnowTheChain ICT benchmark 2025: Purchasing practices
The 2025 KnowTheChain ICT benchmark revealed purchasing practices as an area of critical weakness for ICT companies, with an average score of just 5/100 and 84% of companies scoring zero. This deep dive explores how poor purchasing practices are driving systemic labour rights issues in the sector.
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briefing KnowTheChain ICT benchmark 2025: Supply chain traceability and transparency
The 2025 KnowTheChain ICT benchmark revealed traceability and supply chain transparency as a crucial gap in many ICT companies' approach to addressing forced labour risks. This deep dive analyses key examples of practice and provides recommendations for companies to improve their supply chain traceability and transparency.
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briefing "Not just a number": Tracking migrant worker abuse in global supply chains - 2025 Global Analysis
We recorded 665 cases of alleged abuse of migrant workers in 2024 - a catalogue of abuse which speaks to the very worst impacts of unregulated corporate action and lack of accountability. Explore the data using our interactive tools.
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briefing Four years on: Business and human rights under military rule in Myanmar
Four years since Myanmar’s military seized power on 1 February 2021, more than six thousand people have been killed and about three million more are displaced throughout the country. However, some companies appear to be thriving in the context of the conflict, and in some cases exacerbating it, particularly in the garment, rare earth mining, aviation and technology industries. Their decisions and approach to human rights due diligence – or lack thereof – will continue to have serious consequences for the people of Myanmar.
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briefing Shein, ultra-fast fashion and forced labour risks: Key issues for investors
Ahead of Shein’s anticipated IPO in London, we assessed the company’s public disclosure on addressing forced labour in global supply chains against the KnowTheChain benchmark methodology. The findings demonstrate Shein falls significantly short of leaders in the apparel and footwear benchmark – a red flag for investors given the company’s scope for human rights harm due to its size, speed and purchasing power.
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briefing Who pays for the crisis? Purchasing practices analysis - December 2024
We examine the human cost of fashion brands’ shifting sourcing strategies amidst instability in demand and orders—leading to factory closures, job losses and unpaid wages for workers. At the core of these issues are poor purchasing practices and their devastating impact on labour rights.
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