Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 47
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- This lack of accountability at lower levels of the supply chain inhibits the multiplier effect that efforts to implement the standards should have in bringing the larger group within the industry under the same standard. Companies’ leverage over their suppliers in today’s complex supply chains, in which individual companies may represent a small percentage of a supplier’s business share, can prove very limited if it is not accompanied by a collective action from the industry as a whole. While efforts by industry coalitions and multi-stakeholder initiatives are aimed at breaking through such barriers, current individual corporate limits on supply chain transparency hinder the use of powerful tools such as the consumer thirst for greater accountability, as lower levels in the supply chain hidden by a lack of transparency would be immune to such demands for accountability. Also, suppliers whose business relationships are predominantly with companies based in countries where there is a higher level of consumer awareness and where national legislation requires a higher degree of due diligence and transparency will respond differently to their buyers’ requirements regarding compliance with human rights and labour standards than will suppliers whose main business relationships are with companies based in countries with less robust national frameworks and lower consumer demand for ethically produced goods.
- Condicón jurídica
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Medio de adopción
- N.A.
- Temas
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personas afectadas
- N.A.
- Año
- 2017
- Tipo de párrafo
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 47
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