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Social Auditing and Ethical Certification

 Persistent problems have been documented in the effectiveness of social auditing and ethical certification schemes when it comes to preventing, detecting and addressing forced labour. In recent years the social compliance industry has awoken to these limitations and there is growing discussion of the need to improve forced labour detection and remediation systems. To date, reform efforts have centred around improving ethical certification standards and audit methodologies on paper, but there is little evidence that incremental improvements are leading to meaningful change on the ground.

While there is growing acknowledgement of the social compliance regime’s flaws, there has been less attention to how these gaps could be meaningfully addressed. With that in mind, this Brief explores: How can social auditing and certification be adequately regulated or reformed to play a role in eradicating forced labour? What is the potential to reinvest the cost of these mechanisms into more effective solutions?

Herausgeber*in/Autor*in: Genevieve LeBaron, Andreas Rümkorf, Jessie Brunner, Luis C. de Baca, Vivek Soundararajan, Priscilla Fisher
Medienart: Hintergrundinformation
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Zielgruppe: Erwachsene
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 42 Seiten
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