Some of the clothes we wear, the food on our plates and many of the batteries that power our lives all have risks in common: potential harms buried deep in their supply chains.
A recent Amnesty International report exposed oppressive practices and labour rights abuses affecting garment workers in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the supply chains for many global fashion brands. We have seen other such reports of human rights abuses in supply chains over the years. A BBC investigation exposed that tomato paste sold in the UK contained tomatoes grown and picked in China using forced labour. Meanwhile, around 70 per cent of the world’s cobalt reserves lie in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where tens of thousands of children are reported to work at mine sites.
