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briefing Justice in the transition: Litigating corporate abuse in the shift to clean energy for all
This year’s analysis of the cases in the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s Just Transition Litigation Tracking Tool reveals a growing wave of litigation, with 95 cases across the world brought by rightsholders over human rights abuses in projects linked to the global shift to clean energy. These lawsuits are not a rejection of climate action; they are a demand for a truly just transition.
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briefing Human rights defenders and business: 10 year analysis
From January 2015 to December 2024, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (the Resource Centre) recorded more than 6,400 attacks across 147 countries against people who voiced concerns about business-related risks or harms. This is close to two attacks on average every day over the past ten years.
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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 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 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: 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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