Human rights in supply chains : a call for a binding global standard on due diligence.

[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, 2016.

©2016

JC599.H86 H87 2016

9781623133498
1623133491

20 pages : color illustrations, color photographs ; 28 cm

(OCoLC)951915685
(OCoLC)958068904

Around the world an estimated 450 million people work in global supply chains. Businesses increasingly rely on complex chains of suppliers that span multiple countries to source their goods and services. Subject to radically different legal, regulatory, and human rights practices, these businesses may cause or contribute to human rights abuses. Yet, there is no international legally binding standard to regulate the human rights practices of businesses.The report sets out some of the most pervasive human rights problems documented by Human Rights Watch in global supply chains. These include labor rights abuses, child labor, environmental damage, and violations of the rights to health, land, food, and water. The report highlights abuses in the agriculture, garment and footwear, mining, construction, and other sectors in every region of the world. Human Rights Watch calls upon governments, employers, and workers at the 2016 International Labour Conference to initiate the process for a new, international, legally binding standard. This standard would oblige governments to require businesses to conduct human rights due diligence across the entirety of their global supply chains.

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"May 2016."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-19).

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