Industry Alliances

Our list of (cross-)industry coalitions and partnerships that address human and labor rights issues of migrant workers in global supply chains.

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Responsible Recruitment Gateway

  • Managed by IHRB, the Responsible Recruitment Gatewayprovides access to a range of tools and information to help companies move towards the ‘Employer Pays’ model of responsible recruitment.

  • HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, GE, IKEA, MARS, M&S, Nestlé, Nike, PepsiCo, Target, Tesco, The Coca Cola Company, Unilever, Vinci, Walmart

  • To implement the Employer Pays Principle across industries.

    1. Regional workshops, sector specific trainings, Dilemma Fora, Global Annual Forum.

    2. Direct collaboration with IOM, Verité, ICCR, and influential regional NGOs.

    1. Infographics on Theory of Change, the Increasing Debt Burden, Six Steps to Responsible Recruitment, the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity.

    2. Research reports, legislation overviews, company guidelines.

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Responsible Business Alliance

  • Founded in 2004, RBA comprises of electronics, retail, auto and toy companies committed to supporting the rights and well-being of workers and communities worldwide affected by global supply chains.

  • 150+ members,

    including Acer, Amazon.com, Apple, Applied Materials, BMW Group, Bose, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, Facebook, Flex, Fujitsu, HP, Huawei, IBM, Lenovo, Logitech, Microsoft, NETGEAR, Oracle America, Philips, Qualcomm, Samsung, Tesla, Toshiba, and others.

  • “. . . to drive the transformation of recruitment markets, reduce the risk of forced labor and provide remedy in global supply chains at all stages of recruitment and employment”.

    1. Supplemental Validated Audit Process (SVAP) on Forced Labor.

    2. Responsible Labor Initiative (RLI).

    3. Trafficked & Forced Labor issue management.

    4. Online trainings.

    1. Executive statements

    2. Podcast on ethical recruitment and RLI

    3. Assessment brochures

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Ethical Trading Initiative

  • Founded in 1998, Ethical Training Initiative (ETI) convene and collaborate with key stakeholders to improve business transparency and accountability and bring about positive change.

  • 90+ members, including Aldi, ASDA, asos, Bonmarché, Burberry, C&A, Clarks, GAP, H&M, Hunter, Li&Fund, J Sainsbury, Marshalls, New Look, orsay, PRIMARK, The Body Shop, WHSmith, and others

  • To respect workers’ voices, to improve their conditions – and where abuse occurs to provide an effective remedy.

    1. Collective lobbying for laws on protecting migrant workers’ rights (e.g., UK Modern Slavery act).

    2. Resolving violations in supply chain.

    3. Country-specific programs.

    4. Close collaboration with trade unions and NGOs.

    1. Blog and newsletter.

    2. Company guiding brochures, including relevant ILO conventions.

    3. Links to campaigning organizations, consulting and auditing companies, think tanks, trade unions, and more.

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Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

  • An initiative that brings together multiple stakeholders from across the palm oil supply chain to develop and implement global standards for sustainable palm oil.

  • 4000+ members,

    including AAK, MIGROS, Nestlé, MARS, P&G, Unilever, Walmart; numerous certified growers and smallholders

  • “[to address]. . . excessive working hours, occupational health and safety hazards, and more seriously, child labour, forced labour, and the trafficking of migrant workers”

    1. Labor Rights Task Force (LTF).

    2. Certifications for growers and distributors.

    3. Investigation of complaints.

    4. Smallholder support.

    1. Raw data on member companies.

    2. Annual Communication of Progress reports.

    3. Regularly updated news on working conditions of palm-oil migrant workers.

    4. Best practices samples, minutes from general assembly and complaints meetings, Human Rights Working Group summaries.

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The Consumer Goods Forum

  • A global, industry-led network that brings together over 400 member companies, including retailers, manufacturers, and other stakeholders from 70 countries in the consumer goods industry.

  • 400+ members,

    including Alibaba, Barilla, Carrefour, Campbells, Colgate, Danone, Heineken, Henkel, Jerónimo Martins, Kellog’s, Kroger, Lawson, L’Oreal, M&S, MARS, MGB, MIGROS, Mondelēz, Nestlé, P&G, Rewe, S Group, Target, Tesco, The Coca Cola Company, Unilever, Walmart, and others

  • “[to]. . . harness the power of collective action as an industry group, to identify and address issues and geographies of shared concern, enhancing the efficiency of any individual company initiatives”

    1. Forced Labor Initiative (FLI).

    2. Responsible recruitment workshops.

    3. Roundtables with national governments.

    4. Calls for collective action on preventing forced labor.

    1. Executive reports, videos, podcasts and infographics.

    2. Business Actions Against Forced Labor booklet.

    3. Infographics.

    4. Social Sustainability One-Pager.

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Seafood Task Force

  • STF comprises large retailers, seafood brands and other stakeholders who work together to drive supply chain oversight in this industry.

  • 40+ members,

    including Aldi, Bumble Bee Seafoods, CFF, Charoen Pokphand Foods, Costco, Grobest, Kingfisher, Labeyrie, Mazzeta, MRG, Nestlé Purina, Rubicon, Seafresh Group, Sodexo, Sysco, Target, Thai Union, TRF, The Fishin’ Company, Walmart, XianNing Seafood, and others

  • To tackle social issues in Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing (IUU), especially, human trafficking & forced labor in off-shore fishing vessels in international waters.

    1. Oversight, supervision, surveillance, and inspection in the supply chain (current focus area – Thailand; plans for global scalability).

    2. Regular workshops, and trainings.

    3. Collective lobbying for new legislations.

    1. Progress reports, vessel auditing standards

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Business for Inclusive Growth

  • B4IG is a partnership between the OECD and major corporations from across the globe, committed to scaling up business action on inequality through its three pledge areas.

  • B4IG member companies collaborate with OECD experts, partners, and academics to transform joint efforts into actionable business strategies for inclusive growth. Currently, they focus on tackling inequalities through six key themes: Human Rights, Inclusive Workplaces, Supply Chains & Ecosystems, Impact Measurement, Just Transition, and Young People.

  • Strengthening member companies’ human rights due diligence processes, with a focus on eliminating forced labor and child labor, and respecting freedom of association.

    1. Advancing fair recruitment practices through the development of an ethical corridor between India and UAE.

    2. Providing Human Rights Due Diligence tools to support companies in contracting suppliers.

    3. Influencing the dialogue around EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence.

    1. Newsletters.

    2. Incubators to support micro-level businesses.

    3. Financing forms: foster partnerships to fund strategic and transformative inclusive growth initiatives.

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AIM Progress

  • AIM Progress is a member-led forum of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies and suppliers, with an objective to advance human rights in supply chains through responsible sourcing.

  • 48 member companies, 7 strategic partners, including in the FMCG sector, and their suppliers, who can demonstrate commitment to respecting human rights. E.g.,AB InBev, Coca-Cola, Unilever, and Nestlé.

  • To positively impact people's lives and ensure respect for human rights, while delivering value to our members and their supply chains.

    1. Human Rights and Due Diligence.

    2. Convergence.

    3. Living Wage and Income.

    4. Responsible Recruitment.

    5. Grievance Mechanisms.

    6. Climate crisis and just transition.

    1. AIM progress membership brochure

    2. AIM-progress introductory presentations

    3. AIM-Progress Grievance Mechanism Roll-out project-executive summary

    4. News & Events

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International Code of Conduct Association

  • A multi-stakeholder initiative formed in 2013 to ensure private security providers respect human rights and humanitarian law, governing and overseeing the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers.

  • 287+ members all over the globe, including governments, private security companies, civil society organisations, observers.

  • ICoCA’s mission is to raise private security industry standards and practices that respect human rights and international humanitarian law and to engage with key stakeholders to achieve widespread adherence to its Code globally.

    1. The use of private security companies in detention centres poses a critical issue in migration management, with significant human rights risks.

  • News, Working Condition Reports, ESG Guide, Migration related policy brief, Case map, Blogs.

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AllianceHR Ltd

  • AllianceHR delivers collaborative programs to drive systemic human rights improvements in global supply chains. Their clients include retailers, brands, producers, growers and labor suppliers.

  • Many hundreds of retailers, brands, producers, growers and labour suppliers.

  • AllianceHR provides consultancy, training and confidential HR support to a wide variety of employment businesses and Labour Providers.

  • AllianceHR ltd provide consultancy regarding managing a migrant and multicultural workforce – Support, advice and training including: Developing workforce cohesion and an inclusive workplace; Preventing illegal working and eligibility to work compliance reviews; Communicating with a multi-language workforce.

  • Programmes: Association of labour providers; Stronger together; Responsible Recruitment Toolkit; Clearview; Fast Forward; Complyer.

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World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance

  • Founded in 1992, WSHA aims to drive collaborative action to enable the hospitality industry to address key challenges affecting the planet, people, and places around the world.

  • WSHA's hospitality members represent over 7 million rooms globally, and include 32 world-leading hotel companies with a combined reach of over 55,000 properties. Their members include large and small hotel companies with both international and regional portfolios.

  • Every business, wherever they operate, has a corporate responsibility to represent human rights and have process in place to prevent or mitigate human rights issues.

  • WSHA consulted with our members, and stakeholders outside the industry, to identify the areas with the highest potential for human rights risks in the hotel industry.

    1. Net Positive Hospitality Simulation.

    2. Guide to WSHA resources on climate action.

    3. Guide to WSHA resources on Water Stewardship.

    4. Human Rights Resources Guide.

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Electronic Watch

  • Electronic Watch helps public procurement organizations to promote and protec the rights of workers in global supply chains.

  • 1514* public sector affiliates in 12 countries, of which 35 are directly affiliated and 1470 are affiliated through a purchasing consortium, network or framework authority.

  • To use public procurement leverage to promote and protect the rights of workers in global supply chains.

    1. Electronics Watch raises awareness about the severity and prevalence of risks to workers in public sector supply chains, and provides its affiliates with tools and guidance to strengthen their ability to drive change through procurement.

    2. Monitoring partners are local civil society organisations based in electronics production regions and mining regions.

    3. Electronics Watch works directly with affiliates to engage their suppliers in dialogue on human rights, informed by the evidence generated by worker-driven monitoring.

  • Annual Conferences, Webinars, Annual Reports and Strategic Plan, Procurement Tools and Studies, Monitoring Reports, Policy Briefs, Videos, Impact Stories.

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