During 2016, KnowTheChain - a partnership between Humanity United, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Sustainalytics and Verite - is benchmarking companies on their actions to address forced labour in their supply chains...The evaluation of the companies will review information that is publicly available, either on a company’s public website or in public reports available from the company’s website...Companies have also been invited to provide additional disclosure by updating their own websites, or by responding to a set of engagement questions that correspond to the benchmark methodology...

Company responses to the questions from the apparel and footwear benchmark will be made publicly available below...