Sources
Here we have compiled sources you can use in your work on due diligence. In the first section, we link to international frameworks on due diligence, the UN and ILO conventions and legislative databases, EU and US databases and reports on global mineral production, transparency databases, as well as other cross-cutting material. We then link to sources focusing on human rights, workers’ rights, the environment, and business ethics respectively, as well as to material concerning particularly vulnerable groups. Finally, we link to global trade union federations.
Frameworks and cross-cutting sources
- UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: An Interpretive Guide
- OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
- OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct
- OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains in the Garment & Footwear Sector
- OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas
- OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains
- ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy
- Children’s Rights and Business Principles
- UN Treaty Body Database (ratification per country)
- ILO NORMLEX (ratification per country)
- ILO NATLEX (national labour law legislation)
- Institutet mot mutors näringslivskod
- U.S. Geological Survey’s Mineral Commodity Summaries
- European Commission Raw Materials Information System
- Raw Material Ooutlook Platform
- Business Human Rights Centre
- Transition Minerals Tracker
- U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR database (search for company name and filing type “SD” = conflict minerals disclosure)
- Supply Trace
- Open Suppy Hub
- OECD Watch Complaints Database
- CSR Risk Check
- Global Witness
Human Rights
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – Countries
- U.S. Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (content has changed under President Trump)
- Human Rights Watch World Report (information per country)
- Amnesty International A-Z of countries and regions
- Freedom House Countries and Territories
- World Justice Rule of Law Index
- European Commission Rule of Law Reports
- Human Rights Measurement Initiative Rights Tracker
- UNDP Global Human Development Indicators
- World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators
- Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
- Land Matrix Initiative
Workers’ rights
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – Countries
- U.S. Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (content has changed under President Trump)
- U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report (content has changed under President Trump)
- Forcedlabor.ai
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Withhold Release Orders and Findings List
- Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List
- Responsible Sourcing Tool
- Global Slavery Index
- Forced Labour Observatory
- EUFLR Readiness Tool
- U.S. Department of Labor’s Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor (content has changed under President Trump)
- ITUC Global Rights Index
- ILO Statistics on Safety and Health at Work
- ILO Statistics on Working Time
- ILO Statistics on Wages
- WageIndicator
- Global Life-Work Balance Index
The environment
- Environmental Performance Index
- WWF Risk Filter Suite (Biodiversity & Water)
- ND-GAIN Country Index
- Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas
- OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
- EU DEVCO Country Environmental Profile
- Environmental Justice Atlas
- Global Forest Watch
- Climate TRACE
- Trase
Business ethics
- Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index
- GAN Integrity Risk and Compliance Portal
- Country reports on the implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
- U.S. Department of State’s Investment Climate Statements
- OECD Competition Assessment Reviews
- Tax Justice Network Financial Secrecy Index
Particularly vulnerable groups
- Human Rights Measurement Initiative Rights Tracker
- Gender Inequality Index
- Children’s Rights and Business Atlas
- World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
- International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
- Indigenous Navigator
- CIVICUS Monitor
- Civic Freedoms & HRD Data (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre)
- ILO Statistics on International Labor Migration
- ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers
- Migrant Integration Policy Index
- Fragile States Index
- CrisisWatch
Global trade unions
- International Trade Union Confederation
- Building and Wood Workers International
- IndustriAll
- International Transport Workers’ Federation
- International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations
- UNI Global Union