Reports
We publish research reports that provide key insights into business models and how they affect human rights. The reports provide clear recommendations to business and policymakers on how to address human rights challenges.
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Our report “Assessing Harvesting the Future” addresses how to improve human rights in global agriculture supply chains. Seasonal migrant workers face deep-rooted human and labor rights risks. The Free Labor Association’s Harvesting the Future (HTF) initiative, piloted in Türkiye and expanded to Egypt and India, addresses these challenges through a collective model focused on child protection and responsible recruitment. Our study highlights the HTF’s positive impact and areas for growth—especially in strengthening local stakeholder capacity and ensuring long-term sustainability.
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This fourth report from Veronica Bates-Kassatly and Dorothée Baumann-Pauly examines what the fashion sector itself defines as sustainable, and how it measures this.
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This report, a follow on of a study of a 2020 study, documents how the European financial services industry factors human rights considerations into its operations, comparing it where possible to the status two years ago.
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This study assesses the role that children’s rights currently play for businesses in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It was conducted for UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein and for the UN Global Compact Network Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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Supply chain dynamics can change rapidly, and disruptions are increasingly the norm, not the exception. By analyzing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s coffee and sugar supply chains, we highlight economic factors that indicate and drive human rights risks.