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July 22, 2021 News Release

Abuses in Aluminum Supply Chains a Blind Spot for Car Industry

Car Companies Should Drive Up Standards at Mines, Refineries, Smelters

Women from Hamdallaye village, in Guinea’s Boké region, in 2018. In 2020, Hamdallaye was relocated to a new site by La Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée, a mining company backed by mining giants Alcoa, Rio Tinto, and Dadco. The new site lacks adequate farmland, housing, water and sanitation.
June 11, 2021 News Release

Germany: New Supply Chain Law a Step in the Right Direction

Law’s Gaps Should be Fixed by Next Government

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March 27, 2021 News Release

China: Companies Should Resist Boycott Threats

Government Warns H&M, Nike

Workers load cotton onto a truck at a sunning ground in Alar (Alaer), northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, September 2015.
February 23, 2021 News Release

Germany: MPs Should Strengthen Proposed Supply Chain Law

Proposed Measure Falls Short of International Norms

"Peter," 15, working alongside a teenage girl at an artisanal and small-scale mine in Odahu, Amansie West district, Ghana.
February 11, 2021 News Release

For Valentine’s Day, Traceable, Transparent Jewelry Supply Chains

Jewelry, Watch Companies Should Strengthen Supply Chain Safeguards

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February 1, 2021 Commentary

Why Jewellers Need to Vet their Global Supply Chains

A group of protesters holds a sign that reads "Active Participation of Communities in Diamond Mining is a Basic Human Right."
January 5, 2021 Commentary

How Can Jewellery Brands Minimise Human Rights Risks in Their Supply Chains?

The showroom of Titan's jewellery brand "Tanishq'" at Connaught Place in New Delhi, India, October 2020.
October 1, 2020 News Release

Germany: Respect Child Rights in Global Supply Chains

Call for an Effective Human Rights Due Diligence Law

Child labor in an informal gold mine in Ghana
September 1, 2020 Commentary

Global Gold Supply Chains Just Got Riskier

In the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Gold Sector Should Re-assess Human Rights Impacts

Gold nuggets being weighed by a gold trader
August 27, 2020 Dispatches

German Economics Ministry Blocks Effective Supply Chains Law

Companies’ Respect for Rights at Particular Risk During Covid-19

Workers sew clothes in a garments factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 25, 2020.
September 10, 2019 Dispatches

A Chance to Curtail Abuse in Germany’s Supply Chains

Groups Call for Law on Human Rights Protection in Companies’ Sourcing Practices

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March 14, 2019 News Release

Labor and Human Rights Groups Urge Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives and Business Associations in the Apparel Sector to Adopt Transparency Requirements

Fair Labor Association Makes Significant Move to Require Affiliates to Disclose Supplier Lists

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June 28, 2018 News Release

Jewelry Group Should Raise Bar for Supply Chains

Recommendations for Responsible Sourcing for Precious Metals, Stones

A girl works in an artisanal diamond mine in Sosso Nakombo, Central African Republic, near the border with Cameroon, in August 2015
April 17, 2018 Dispatches

A Chance to Curb Abuse in Mineral Supply Chains

Monitoring of Companies’ Sourcing Practices Should Be Prioritized

A girl works in an artisanal diamond mine in Sosso Nakombo, Central African Republic, near the border with Cameroon, in August 2015.
May 17, 2017 News Release

G20 Labor Summit: Protect Rights in Supply Chains

Widespread Rights Abuses

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