Human rights reporting and disclosure - what’s the view from the ground amidst evolving EU regulation?

Discussion on the 'simplification' of EU sustainability regulation is continuing in Brussels. Amidst these developments, what is useful and what really matters when it comes to corporate transparency and accountability?

IHRB’s Vicky Bowman explores the role of voluntary standards and reporting to strengthen transparency in global supply chains and how these link to evolving regulatory requirements. 

In this episode Vicky speaks to Giles Bolton from membership body Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI); Natalie Grillon from Open Supply Hub; and Emily Casswell from clothing retailer Bestseller. 

ETI has developed voluntary standards to help encourage company reporting and disclosure in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights, and they work with Open Supply Hub, a website that helps companies, civil society and consumers to track where goods are manufactured. Retailer Bestseller is an ETI member who have been applying these voluntary standards among others in how they report and disclose their human rights due diligence.

In this conversation, you’ll get an insight into how mandatory and voluntary requirements come together; how businesses can go beyond legal box-ticking; and what the increasingly popular concept of  ‘meaningful engagement’ means in practice.

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Host: Deborah Sagoe, IHRB's Communications Coordinator
Producer & Editor: Helen Brown
Additional Contributors: Sam Simmons, IHRB's Head of Communications