Human Dignity and Integrity

Human Dignity and Integrity (Tackling Modern Slavery): A Getting Started Guide

Human rights ensure that everyone can live a life of dignity and respect, without discrimination or deprivation. Anchored in research, our Human Dignity and Integrity (Tackling Modern Slavery): A Getting Started Guide aims to support your company as it begins or revisits a human rights strategy. It helps build a foundational understanding of the issue and provides clarity on the work ahead.

Modern Slavery Act Resources

The Ethical Trading Initiative has compiled various resources to help you understand how your organisation can contribute to the abolition of modern slavery. The website is arranged into six sub-categories including ETI resources such as blogs and training courses; advocacy pieces such as submissions to the Australian and Canadian Governments; guidance and examples, such as a list of published company statements; existing projects, such as the DOL's Child Labor and Forced Labor Program; background research and reports from the ILO, UN, and more; and reports and case studies from a wide range of industries.

Women, Business and the Law 2026

This global benchmarking project measures how laws, regulations, and policies shape women’s economic opportunities and private sector development across 190 economies. Their interactive map allows you to explore data on legal frameworks, supportive frameworks, and enforcement perceptions at the economy level for ten topics relating to women's working lives, including safety, mobility, work, pay, marriage, childcare, entrepreneurship, assets, and pension. WBL also produces a comprehensive report, which highlights where legal gender gaps exist and persist; introduces new measurements to track global progress toward legal gender equality; and updates data for the aforementioned topics relevant for women’s participation in the economy. This resource will be especially helpful for change agents tasked with creating opportunities to support equity of economic opportunities for women, such as by designing job-focused interventions and driving or supporting private sector reform.

Base Code Guidance: Child Labour

This guide from the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) can help you better understand child labour, why businesses have a responsibility to address it, and how they can take meaningful action to end it. It explains the root causes of child labour and outlines four steps for applying the ETI Base Code on child labour. These include assessing actual and potential risk of child labour; identification of corporate leverage and responsibility, decision-making, and actions needed; mitigation of risk and remediation for child workers in cases of ETI Base Code violations; and monitoring implementation and impact. This practical guide will be most useful to supply chain management and sustainability teams.

Human Trafficking and Business: Good Practices to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking

This report from the UN can help you better understand the issue of human trafficking and the role of business in addressing it. The first section provides an overview of what human trafficking is, why it is important to business, and how businesses can prevent it. The second section features a series of case studies that highlight the practical actions companies are taking to fight this abuse.

Although this resource is more than decade old, the good practices outlined remain relevant today for supply chain and sustainability practitioners.