Date:

9 Mar 2025

Content Type:

Article

In a statement, small and medium-sized German enterprises (SMEs) call for an adjustment of the Supply Chain Act to align with the European regulations adopted in 2024, ensuring legal certainty, avoiding unnecessary burdens, and effectively implementing human rights and environmental protection.

Date:

10 Jan 2025

Content Type:

Article

The due diligence approach allows human rights and environmental risks to be assessed in a contextualized manner. Behind what is criticized as a “bureaucratic” approach, there is therefore far-reaching trust in companies, the authors argue.

Date:

9 Dec 2024

Content Type:

Report

The ninth Human Rights Report of the German Institute for Human Rights covers topics such as the exclusion of people with disabilities in the labour market, exploitative working conditions for migrant workers and the human rights responsibility of companies.

Date:

23 Aug 2024

Content Type:

Article

During a visit to Pakistan, Development Minister Svenja Schulze said the law was working and is not over-demanding.

Date:

30 Jun 2024

Content Type:

Article

Textile discounter KiK has been criticised for allegedly failing to support implementation of a labour and union rights agreement it had initially encouranged a local supplier to sign with Pakistani trade union NTUF. The union and its German partner organisations have suspended negotiations with KiK for the time being because "KiK's actions do not satisfy its obligations under the LkSG [German Supply Chain Act]".

Date:

5 Feb 2024

Content Type:

Article

According to the trade unionists Nasir Mansoor and Zehra Khan, even if there are some areas that need to be improved, the German Supply Chain Act is already having a positive impact and is protecting human rights on the ground - as are those companies that are willing to address human rights in their supply chains.

Date:

27 Dec 2023

Content Type:

Article

After one year of the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, civil society networks have provided an initial positive assessment but also see need for improvement in the future.

Date:

8 Dec 2023

Content Type:

Report

Date:

7 Nov 2023

Content Type:

Article

The purpose of this guidance note is to inform relevant stakeholders—those affected by human rights violations and environmental destruction along the transnational value chains of German companies, as well as civil society organizations in producing countries—about this new law and its possibilities.

Date:

3 Nov 2023

Content Type:

Article

The complaint against REWE and EDEKA concerns alleged labour and human rights violations on banana and pineapple plantations belonging to suppliers in Ecuador and Costa Rica.

Date:

29 Jun 2023

Content Type:

Article

Issued by the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control

Date:

21 Jun 2023

Content Type:

Article

ECCHR has filed a complaint against VW, BMW and Mercedes Benz with BAFA, arguing that the companies have not presented evidence showing that they are responding adequately to the risk of forced labour in supplier factories in the Xinjiang Autonomous Uyghur Region. The complaint is backed by the World Uyghur Congress and the Dachverband der Kritischen Aktionäre (German Umbrella Association of Critical Shareholders).

Date:

21 Jun 2023

Content Type:

Article

The new guide details what trade union representatives, particularly those in works councils or supervisory boards in Germany, should expect from a risk assessment under international standards and the German Supply Chain Act, which mandates human rights due diligence.

Date:

24 Apr 2023

Content Type:

Article

On 24 April, the 10th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, FEMNET and National Garment Workers Federation filed a complaint on the basis of the German Supply Chain Act which came into force in January 2023.

Date:

27 Mar 2023

Content Type:

Article

This article aims to analyse to what extent the Act responds to the third pillar of the UNGPs.

Date:

10 Jan 2023

Content Type:

Article

Adopted in 2021, the bill was a long-overdue legislative starting point with room for improvement, expected to come at the EU level, says the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ)

Date:

30 Dec 2022

Content Type:

Article

Date:

30 Dec 2022

Content Type:

Article

From 2023, German companies must ensure that human rights are respected along their supply chains.

Date:

14 Oct 2022

Content Type:

Article