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Name of Resource | KnowTheChain |
Type | Traceability/practical tool |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Humanity United, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Sustainalytics, Verité |
Date of publishing | 2016 |
Description | KnowTheChain is a resource for companies and investors to understand and address forced labour risks within their global supply chains. KnowTheChain uses benchmarking as a tool to identify and share best practices, and as a way to harness the competitive nature of markets to create a “race to the top” that encourages companies to adopt standards and practices that protect the worker’s well-being. KnowTheChain’s goal is to inform companies’ and investors’ decision-making, and enable companies to operate more transparent and responsible supply chains. |
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Name of Resource | Legal Case Map |
Type | Registry / data base |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Liberty Asia |
Date of publishing | 2017 |
Description | The Case Map displays the geographic spread of key business and human rights lawsuits, as well as selected complaints under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. It provides summaries of the proceedings, along with information on the countries and issues involved, legislation used and dates. Search results can be filtered by these criteria, allowing a tailored search. |
Availability | ENG: https://business-humanrights.org/en/corporate-legal-accountability/case-profiles/legal-case-map |
Name of Resource | Model Sweatfree Procurement Policy |
Type | Policy implementation tool |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Sweat Free Purchasing Consortium |
Date of publishing | 2012 |
Description | The Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium’s model, Sweatfree Policy, is designed to assist governmental entities in developing their own sweat free policies. It is intended to alert governmental entities to issues that affect the procurement of apparel, textiles, and laundry services, and guide them as they develop policies governing those procurements. It is not intended to serve as an exhaustive treatment of requirements and rules for application. Rather, governmental entities should feel free to use it as a starting point for development of a specific policy that complies with their own policies, statutes and regulations. |
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Name of Resource | Modern Slavery Registry |
Type | Registry / data base |
Country / jurisdiction | United Kingdom |
Organization | Business and Human Rights Resource Centre |
Date of publishing | 2017 |
Description | This Registry is a resource for everyone in business, civil society and government wanting to eradicate modern slavery. The Registry can be used to review companies' efforts. The Registry will be highlighting the better-informed company statements as examples of analysis and commitment to be emulated. The free, transparent and accessible registry is a tool for the public, civil society, parliamentarians, government, investors and others to review and analyse the statements companies are making under the United Kingdom Modern Slavery Act. |
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Name of Resource | Practical Guide for Socially Responsible ICT-Procurement |
Type | Guidance on policy / legislation implementation |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | WEED - World Economy, Ecology & Development |
Date of publishing | October 2015 |
Description | The practical guide aims to assist public procurers by showing practical examples. It presents practical examples of public entities from all across Europe, integrating social criteria in their ICT tenders and pursuing different approaches to control compliance. This includes both specific tenders (and the respective templates), structural measures and external assistance. |
Availability | ENG: http://www2.weed-online.org/uploads/practical_guide_ict_procurement_en.pdf |
Name of Resource | Products of Slavery |
Type | Practical/implementation tool, Interactive source |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Anti-Slavery International |
Date of publishing | 2009 |
Description | The aim of the Products of Slavery is to raise awareness about the scale of slavery and provide information about countries and goods produced with forced labour and child labour. The Products of Slavery visualization uses the best available data to show the magnitude of slavery that can occur at different stages, from the production of raw materials such as cocoa or cotton, the manufacture of goods such as garments, toys or fireworks. |
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