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Name of Resource | The Nexus of Illegal Gold Mining and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains - Lessons from Latin America |
Type | Report/analysis |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Verité |
Date of publishing | July 2016 |
Description | The paper provides analysis of the risk of labour trafficking linked to illegal gold mining in Latin America, drawing upon in-depth field research carried out by Verité in Peru in 2012¬-2013 and in Colombia in 2015, and desk research carried out across the Latin American region. |
Availability | ENG: http://www.verite.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Verite-Report-Illegal_Gold_Mining-2.pdf |
Name of Resource | The Partnership for Freedom |
Type | Platform for co-operation, Advocacy |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | The Partnership for Freedom |
Date of publishing | 2013 |
Description | The Partnership for Freedom is a public-private partnership to spur innovative solutions on human trafficking challenges. To support this mission, the Partnership for Freedom collaborates on a series of three Innovation Challenges to inspire, reward, pilot, and potentially scale constructive solutions to end trafficking and support survivors. The first Challenge, Reimagine: Opportunity, ran from 2013-2014 with the goal of improving the infrastructure of support for survivors of modern slavery in the United States. Winners implemented their projects from 2014-2016; The second Challenge, Rethink Supply Chains, launched in 2015 to surface, support, and share innovative applications of technology to address labour trafficking and exploitation in global supply chains; The third Challenge, Pathways to Freedom, was launched in spring 2017, and challenged local communities to address practices, policies, and perceptions so that every survivor of trafficking receives the respect, support, and opportunities that they deserve. |
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Name of Resource | The Supply Chain Leadership Ladder 2.0 |
Type | Report |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Business for Social Responsibility |
Date of publishing | 15 May 2019 |
Description | The Supply Chain Leadership Ladder is a maturity model that BSR has developed for companies to evaluate and evolve their approach to supply chain sustainability. A better understanding of their current standing with regards to supply chain knowledge, management, and supplier engagement helps these companies to identify how and where they need to invest in their supply chain in order to drive competitive advantage. Supply chain sustainability, also known as responsible sourcing, sustainable sourcing, responsible supply, sustainable procurement, and by other names, continues to evolve, and as such, the approach needed to evolve as well. |
Availability | ENG: https://www.bsr.org/en/our-insights/report-view/supply-chain-leadership-ladder-2.0 |
Name of Resource | UN Guiding Principles Assurance Guidance |
Type | Guidance on policy / legislation implementation |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Human Rights Reporting and Assurance Framework Initiative, co-facilitated by Shift and Mazars |
Date of publishing | March 2017 |
Description | This guidance is designed to help expert practitioners ensure that their work plays a valuable role in advancing the protection of workers, communities and other groups affected by business activities, protecting and creating value for the business in the medium to long term. This source offers guidance about the assurance of companies’ human rights performance and reporting. This subject matter guidance serves two purposes: one, to help internal auditors assure companies’ human rights performance, and two, to support external assurance providers’ assurance of companies’ human rights reporting. |
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Name of Resource | UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework with implementation guidance |
Type | Guidance on policy / legislation implementation |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Human Rights Reporting and Assurance Framework Initiative, co-facilitated by Shift and Mazars |
Date of publishing | February 2015 |
Description | The UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework is a comprehensive guidance for companies to report on human rights issues in line with their responsibility to respect human rights. This responsibility is set out in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which constitutes the authoritative global standard in this field. The Reporting Framework provides a concise set of questions to which any company should strive to have answers to in order to know and show that it is meeting its responsibility to respect human rights in practice. It offers companies clear and straightforward guidance on how to answer these questions with relevant and meaningful information about their human rights policies, processes and performance. S ee also: Reporting Insights: https://www.ungpreporting.org/database-analysis/reporting-trends-and-insights/ Maturity Indicators & Methodology: https://www.ungpreporting.org/database-analysis/methodology/ |
Availability | ENG: https://www.ungpreporting.org/wp-content/uploads/UNGPReportingFramework_withguidance2017.pdf |