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briefing KnowTheChain: Good Practice Guide 2024
This Guide is a resource for companies and investors seeking to understand what strong corporate practice and disclosure looks like with respect to a range of key elements of upstream supply chain human rights due diligence. It draws on data collected by KnowTheChain over eight years of benchmarking global multinational companies across three sectors: Apparel & Footwear, Food & Beverage and ICT.
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briefing From mining to renewable energy: Lessons learnt from benefit sharing legislation for a just transition in Africa
The climate crisis necessitates a global transition to renewable energy that is not only fast but also fair: a shift that includes the creation of shared prosperity for the frontline communities being asked to host vast renewable energy installations and transition mineral mines. We examine existing legislative frameworks in Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe that have the potential to help deliver shared prosperity for the communities whose land and resources are crucial for the energy transition.
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briefing Powering electric vehicles: Human rights impacts of Indonesia's nickel rush
Nickel, a key component in electric vehicle batteries, is set to play a crucial role in the shift away from fossil fuels. As Indonesia's nickel mining sector grows to meet the needs of the expanding EV industry, we examine the impacts of nickel mining on two small islands in Southeast Sulawesi: Wawonii and Kabaena.
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briefing Unjust transition on trial: Communities and workers litigate to shape corporate practice
The speed of the energy transition will depend on investment flows and the retention of public trust. Yet the disturbing trend of systemic abuse of communities and workers in renewable energy value chains has given rise to a tide of strategic litigation by communities and workers left with no option but to turn to the courts to defend their rights. These lawsuits result in project delays, “stop orders” and escalating costs - risks which companies and investors can and must avoid through robust human rights due diligence and better project design.
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briefing Keeping watch: Surveillance companies in Middle East & North Africa
We asked 23 companies which allegedly produce or provide surveillance technologies to governments in the MENA region to respond to questions on their corporate transparency and human rights due diligence processes. Only five responded.
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briefing Just for show: Worker representation in Asia’s garment sector & the role of fashion brands & employers
We examine the role of trade unions and alternative representative structures across six major garment-producing countries in South and Southeast Asia - Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - and explore how brands and their suppliers are relying on ineffective representation structures as an alternative to union engagement, undermining freedom of association and collective bargaining, depleting trade unions’ ability to build their membership and contributing to a vicious cycle of poor working conditions in the sector.
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briefing Transition Minerals Tracker: 2024 Global Analysis
Our annual analysis highlights the urgent need for a just energy transition based on three core principles: shared prosperity; robust human rights due diligence and worker, community and defender rights protections; and fair negotiation between business, workers and communities.
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briefing People power under pressure: Human rights defenders & business in 2023
We recorded 630 instances of attacks against people raising concerns about business-related harms in 2023. This is part of a consistent, ongoing pattern of attacks against HRDs protecting our rights and planet globally, with more than 5,300 attacks recorded since January 2015.
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briefing Fuelling injustice: Transition mineral impacts in Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Previously neglected in global analyses of transition minerals, the EECA region is becoming a new hotspot for transition mineral extraction and supply – primarily due to abundant reserves of these minerals now critical to a fast transition to clean energy. However, new research reveals that between 2019 and 2023, more than 400 allegations of abuse were linked to the development, extraction and processing of 20 transition minerals in the region.
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briefing Taking CTRL: Pathways to effective tech investor engagement
Effective engagement and collaboration between civil society and investors is crucial in the fight for digital rights and corporate accountability. Lessons from the experiences of activists, civil society organisations and tech investors.
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