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Thailand to introduce mandatory supply chain due diligence law
https://www.walkfree.org/news/2025/thailand-to-introduce-mandatory-supply-chain-due-diligence-law/
Thailand is taking a major step towards strengthening corporate accountability by drafting a new law that will require businesses to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence in their supply chains. This proposed mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence law (mHREDD) will build on Thailand’s existing commitments and align with international frameworks. The law will apply to businesses operating in Thailand, requiring them to identify, prevent, and address human rights and environmental risks in their operations and supply chains.
https://www.walkfree.org/news/2025/thailand-to-introduce-mandatory-supply-chain-due-diligence-law/
Thailand is taking a major step towards strengthening corporate accountability by drafting a new law that will require businesses to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence in their supply chains. This proposed mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence law (mHREDD) will build on Thailand’s existing commitments and align with international frameworks. The law will apply to businesses operating in Thailand, requiring them to identify, prevent, and address human rights and environmental risks in their operations and supply chains.
OECD Due Dilligence
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/due-diligence-for-responsible-business-conduct.html
Businesses and investors are of crucial importance for economic, environmental, and social progress. It is important that they avoid adverse impacts on people and the environment. The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct call on companies to carry out risk-based due diligence. This due diligence process helps companies assess and address real and potential negative impacts in their operations, supply chains and business relationships. The OECD has developed guidance and tools to explain these expectations for due diligence and to support companies in putting them into practice.
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/due-diligence-for-responsible-business-conduct.html
Businesses and investors are of crucial importance for economic, environmental, and social progress. It is important that they avoid adverse impacts on people and the environment. The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct call on companies to carry out risk-based due diligence. This due diligence process helps companies assess and address real and potential negative impacts in their operations, supply chains and business relationships. The OECD has developed guidance and tools to explain these expectations for due diligence and to support companies in putting them into practice.
Handbook on due diligence for enabling living incomes and living wages
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/handbook-on-due-diligence-for-enabling-living-incomes-and-living-wages-in-agriculture-garment-and-footwear-supply-chains_6ff52567-en.html
This handbook guides companies on how to use the OECD due diligence framework for achieving living incomes and living wages in global supply chains. It responds to demands by businesses for practical tools to help translate commitments to living incomes and living wages into action as part of their human rights due diligence. The handbook focusses on the agriculture, garment and footwear sectors where inadequate incomes and wages have been identified as prevalent risks. It builds on existing OECD standards on supply chain due diligence and responsible business conduct, notably the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct and the guidances for the agriculture and garment and footwear sectors, and seeks to align with the International Labour Organization (ILO) concept of a living wage.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/handbook-on-due-diligence-for-enabling-living-incomes-and-living-wages-in-agriculture-garment-and-footwear-supply-chains_6ff52567-en.html
This handbook guides companies on how to use the OECD due diligence framework for achieving living incomes and living wages in global supply chains. It responds to demands by businesses for practical tools to help translate commitments to living incomes and living wages into action as part of their human rights due diligence. The handbook focusses on the agriculture, garment and footwear sectors where inadequate incomes and wages have been identified as prevalent risks. It builds on existing OECD standards on supply chain due diligence and responsible business conduct, notably the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct and the guidances for the agriculture and garment and footwear sectors, and seeks to align with the International Labour Organization (ILO) concept of a living wage.
Open letter: Support for the geolocation requirement in the draft EU regulation on deforestation fr
https://ongidef.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Lettre-aux-membres-du-conseil-et-du-parlement-europeen_Finale.pdf
We are a group of 30 Ivorian civil society organisations and 35 Ivorian farmers’ organisations representing more than 34,700 cocoa smallholders. With this letter, we would like to share with you our position on the draft European regulation on imported deforestation and in particular our full support for the geolocation requirement that it proposes and which would bring us many benefits.
We are committed to the development of a sustainable and fair agricultural supply chain. Since January 2021 and the launch of the policy dialogue between Côte d'Ivoire and the European Union on sustainable cocoa, we have been closely following the discussions and participating when invited. ...
Because, beyond identifying the origin of the cocoa, traceability is not only about tackling deforestation. It is also about social equity and an opportunity to put in place mechanisms that allow producers, the first actors in the supply chain, to make a decent living from their work. Traceability is a unique opportunity for producers to access a digitalized system that will reduce the complexity of the supply chain and ensure an improvement of their living conditions.
...
It is precisely the complexity of this supply chain that prompts us to reiterate the inclusion of a clear traceability requirement in the European regulation. We want to seize this opportunity to clean up the cocoa sector in our country. The actors in the timber sector seem to be succeeding thanks to the FLEGT VPA process and we want to draw inspiration from this experience.
For our members, small farmers, the implementation of a geolocation requirement will have many other benefits:
1. Geolocation is a necessary pre-requisite for the implementation of electronic payments to producers: a key issue for us and one that we have expressed to the Ivorian authorities.Our Ministry of Agriculture, through the Coffee and Cocoa Council, is currently working to put such payments in place via the national traceability system. The introduction of electronic payments will make payments secure and ensure a credible and sustainable source of supply. This will effectively combat the fraud that our members often fall victim to. The establishment of electronic payments may even one day allow farmers to receive payments for environmental services.
2. The geo-location of plots and producers makes it possible to clean up the farmer cooperative system insofar as each producer, thanks to a unique identifier, can only belong to one cooperative. And those who do not respect t
https://ongidef.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Lettre-aux-membres-du-conseil-et-du-parlement-europeen_Finale.pdf
We are a group of 30 Ivorian civil society organisations and 35 Ivorian farmers’ organisations representing more than 34,700 cocoa smallholders. With this letter, we would like to share with you our position on the draft European regulation on imported deforestation and in particular our full support for the geolocation requirement that it proposes and which would bring us many benefits.
We are committed to the development of a sustainable and fair agricultural supply chain. Since January 2021 and the launch of the policy dialogue between Côte d'Ivoire and the European Union on sustainable cocoa, we have been closely following the discussions and participating when invited. ...
Because, beyond identifying the origin of the cocoa, traceability is not only about tackling deforestation. It is also about social equity and an opportunity to put in place mechanisms that allow producers, the first actors in the supply chain, to make a decent living from their work. Traceability is a unique opportunity for producers to access a digitalized system that will reduce the complexity of the supply chain and ensure an improvement of their living conditions.
...
It is precisely the complexity of this supply chain that prompts us to reiterate the inclusion of a clear traceability requirement in the European regulation. We want to seize this opportunity to clean up the cocoa sector in our country. The actors in the timber sector seem to be succeeding thanks to the FLEGT VPA process and we want to draw inspiration from this experience.
For our members, small farmers, the implementation of a geolocation requirement will have many other benefits:
1. Geolocation is a necessary pre-requisite for the implementation of electronic payments to producers: a key issue for us and one that we have expressed to the Ivorian authorities.Our Ministry of Agriculture, through the Coffee and Cocoa Council, is currently working to put such payments in place via the national traceability system. The introduction of electronic payments will make payments secure and ensure a credible and sustainable source of supply. This will effectively combat the fraud that our members often fall victim to. The establishment of electronic payments may even one day allow farmers to receive payments for environmental services.
2. The geo-location of plots and producers makes it possible to clean up the farmer cooperative system insofar as each producer, thanks to a unique identifier, can only belong to one cooperative. And those who do not respect t
Article; Gemopper over nieuwe EU-regels tegen ontbossing
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/09/21/gemopper-over-nieuwe-eu-regels-tegen-ontbossing-a4866640
Contains insights into the actual roll-out of this new legislation
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/09/21/gemopper-over-nieuwe-eu-regels-tegen-ontbossing-a4866640
Contains insights into the actual roll-out of this new legislation
Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices (cfrpp)
https://www.cfrpp.org/
Building resilience in supply chains through responsible purchasing practices Responsible purchasing practices are essential to achieve the improvements in factory working conditions that many brands and retailers have publicly committed to. Improved purchasing practices will contribute to preventing harm and facilitating both social and environmental improvements in the supply chain.
https://www.cfrpp.org/
Building resilience in supply chains through responsible purchasing practices Responsible purchasing practices are essential to achieve the improvements in factory working conditions that many brands and retailers have publicly committed to. Improved purchasing practices will contribute to preventing harm and facilitating both social and environmental improvements in the supply chain.
Promoting human rights and environmental due diligence in global supply chains
https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/122202.html
The project enables buyers and manufacturers, particularly in the textile and electronics industry, to live up to their joint responsibility to people and the environment. An integrated fund focuses on promoting projects with EU member states, development partners, the private sector and civil society.
https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/122202.html
The project enables buyers and manufacturers, particularly in the textile and electronics industry, to live up to their joint responsibility to people and the environment. An integrated fund focuses on promoting projects with EU member states, development partners, the private sector and civil society.
OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and Hig
https://www.oecd.org/corporate/mne/mining.htm
The OECD Due Diligence Guidance provides detailed recommendations to help companies respect human rights and avoid contributing to conflict through their mineral purchasing decisions and practices. This Guidance is for use by any company potentially sourcing minerals or metals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas. The OECD Guidance is global in scope and applies to all mineral supply chains.
https://www.oecd.org/corporate/mne/mining.htm
The OECD Due Diligence Guidance provides detailed recommendations to help companies respect human rights and avoid contributing to conflict through their mineral purchasing decisions and practices. This Guidance is for use by any company potentially sourcing minerals or metals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas. The OECD Guidance is global in scope and applies to all mineral supply chains.
Article: Is Europe failing on import diversification?
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/europe-failing-import-diversification
In the discussion on European Union strategic sovereignty – the idea that the EU should not be dependent on other economies – there are broadly two approaches. The first is that a certain degree of self-sufficiency (autarky) is needed, at least in ‘strategic’ industries. The second is that strategic sovereignty can be achieved by ensuring that strategically important imports from one country can be substituted by imports from another – in other words, through sufficient import diversification. But to what extent are Europe’s imports already diversified, and how has diversification developed over time?
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/europe-failing-import-diversification
In the discussion on European Union strategic sovereignty – the idea that the EU should not be dependent on other economies – there are broadly two approaches. The first is that a certain degree of self-sufficiency (autarky) is needed, at least in ‘strategic’ industries. The second is that strategic sovereignty can be achieved by ensuring that strategically important imports from one country can be substituted by imports from another – in other words, through sufficient import diversification. But to what extent are Europe’s imports already diversified, and how has diversification developed over time?
Boskalis dreigt met vertrek uit Nederland
https://nos.nl/artikel/2458887-boskalis-dreigt-met-vertrek-uit-nederland-nieuwe-wet-maakt-ondernemen-onzeker
Het gaat om de wet Internationaal Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen. Die loopt vooruit op Europese wetgeving waarin aan bedrijven over verantwoord ondernemen verplichtingen worden opgelegd. Berdowski maakt zich met name zorgen over een mogelijke zorgplicht. Bedrijven moeten voorkomen dat hun activiteiten negatieve gevolgen hebben voor zaken als mensenrechten, arbeidsrechten of het milieu. Een rechter zou dat kunnen toetsen.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2458887-boskalis-dreigt-met-vertrek-uit-nederland-nieuwe-wet-maakt-ondernemen-onzeker
Het gaat om de wet Internationaal Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen. Die loopt vooruit op Europese wetgeving waarin aan bedrijven over verantwoord ondernemen verplichtingen worden opgelegd. Berdowski maakt zich met name zorgen over een mogelijke zorgplicht. Bedrijven moeten voorkomen dat hun activiteiten negatieve gevolgen hebben voor zaken als mensenrechten, arbeidsrechten of het milieu. Een rechter zou dat kunnen toetsen.
Responsible Sourcing Tool
https://www.responsiblesourcingtool.org/
A wide variety of data was used to determine how to present the risk information you will see on this website on maps, in narrative form, and in charts and graphs. These data include global production and trade flows; numerous reports on human trafficking as well as reports focused on forced labor and/or child labor associated with the production of goods and the provision of services; and information about any countries in which trafficking-related problems have been reported in association with a particular supply chain or service.
https://www.responsiblesourcingtool.org/
A wide variety of data was used to determine how to present the risk information you will see on this website on maps, in narrative form, and in charts and graphs. These data include global production and trade flows; numerous reports on human trafficking as well as reports focused on forced labor and/or child labor associated with the production of goods and the provision of services; and information about any countries in which trafficking-related problems have been reported in association with a particular supply chain or service.
Book: Fashionopolis
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554229/fashionopolis-by-dana-thomas/
Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property—and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalization, and the tech revolution, those abuses have multiplied exponentially, primarily out of view. We are in dire need of an entirely new human-scale model.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554229/fashionopolis-by-dana-thomas/
Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property—and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalization, and the tech revolution, those abuses have multiplied exponentially, primarily out of view. We are in dire need of an entirely new human-scale model.
Ship Visitor
https://www.shipvisitor.org/
The only mobile app to enable organisations to plan, deliver and report on ship visits and port chaplaincy.
https://www.shipvisitor.org/
The only mobile app to enable organisations to plan, deliver and report on ship visits and port chaplaincy.
Fairphone 3 Suppliers, Smelters and Refiners
https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/016_005_FP3_List_Suppliers_and_Smelters_Web_190930.pdf
Smartphones are intricate products made up of thousands of different components. Each of these parts comes from different suppliers and contain a wide variety of materials. As a result, our supply chain includes mines, smelters, refiners and different tiers of manufacturers that span the entire globe. While it may seem like an impossible task, step by step, we are mapping our supply chain to understand exactly what goes into our phone and where it comes from. By learning more about the hundreds of actors and locations involved in our smartphone supply chain, we can take an informed approach to making a difference. For Fairphone, that goes beyond audits, assessments and compliance. For example, it includes sourcing from more responsible mines and actively connecting them to our supply chain. It also means finding and engaging with suppliers that share our values and initiating improvement programs at the factories and beyond.
https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/016_005_FP3_List_Suppliers_and_Smelters_Web_190930.pdf
Smartphones are intricate products made up of thousands of different components. Each of these parts comes from different suppliers and contain a wide variety of materials. As a result, our supply chain includes mines, smelters, refiners and different tiers of manufacturers that span the entire globe. While it may seem like an impossible task, step by step, we are mapping our supply chain to understand exactly what goes into our phone and where it comes from. By learning more about the hundreds of actors and locations involved in our smartphone supply chain, we can take an informed approach to making a difference. For Fairphone, that goes beyond audits, assessments and compliance. For example, it includes sourcing from more responsible mines and actively connecting them to our supply chain. It also means finding and engaging with suppliers that share our values and initiating improvement programs at the factories and beyond.
Transparancy Pledge
https://transparencypledge.org/
Setting the minimum standard for supply chain disclosure in the Garment and Footwear industry
https://transparencypledge.org/
Setting the minimum standard for supply chain disclosure in the Garment and Footwear industry
Know the Chain
https://knowthechain.org/
A resource for companies and investors to address forced labour in global supply chains.Our benchmarks and practical resources help companies operate more transparently and responsibly, while also informing investor decisions.
https://knowthechain.org/
A resource for companies and investors to address forced labour in global supply chains.Our benchmarks and practical resources help companies operate more transparently and responsibly, while also informing investor decisions.