Public Procurement Recommendations
As some of the largest buyers of goods and services in the world, governments wield significant influence on labor practices in global supply chains. Transparentem traced connections between Taiwanese suppliers — where we uncovered evidence of forced labor indicators and other labor abuses — to the public procurement supply chains of five national governments: Australia, […]
Material Risk, Minimal Response: How Investment Firms Assess Unethical Labor Recruitment
Unethical labor recruitment is a key driver of forced labor — an extreme human rights abuse, and a serious material risk for investment firms. Those firms play a critical role in ensuring that their portfolio companies, and the companies within those companies’ supply and value chains, recruit workers ethically. Transparentem’s report examines how a select […]