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ETI Essentials, Autumn 2025

  • Public
  • 27 August 2025
  • Leaflets, brochures & posters
Our series of training courses, in partnership with Inherently Human, booking now for October/November.

Joint response to the JCHR Report on Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains

  • Public
  • 24 July 2025
  • ETI position statement
Joint statement by the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), British Retail Consortium (BRC), Corporate Justice Coalition (CJC), and Trades Union Congress (TUC).
A pair of hands holding grain. Photo credit: Niyi Fagbemi, UNDP Nigeria via Flickr.

Just transitions in food, farming and fisheries: workshop resources

  • Public
  • 11 July 2025
  • Presentations
Shining a light on human and labour rights in green transitions
Large mound of discarded plastic; a waste picker with a basket

ETI insights: Emerging Circular Supply Chains: Safeguarding child and human rights

  • Public
  • 4 July 2025
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Presentation and recording from ETI insights webinar, 25 June 2025
Female sewing machine operator, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Gender disaggregated data: guidance for suppliers

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  • 20 June 2025
  • Tools, Guidelines & Briefings
Explains the importance of collecting and analysing gender-disaggregated workforce data to better understand working conditions through a gender lens.

ETI insights: Responsible Purchasing Practices – Driving change in manufacturing

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  • 7 May 2025
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Presentation and recording from ETI insights webinar, 07 May 2025
Two women in manufacturing factory

Gender-responsive occupational safety and health in supply chains

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  • 28 April 2025
  • Tools, Guidelines & Briefings
Guidance developed by ETI’s General Merchandise group, supporting companies in applying a gender lens to OSH within human rights due diligence (HRDD) frameworks.
Manufacturing, China

Responsible Purchasing Practices - manufacturing case studies

  • Public
  • 24 April 2025
  • Tools, Guidelines & Briefings
When an audit uncovered non-compliance concerning workers' wages, SmallWorld realised that more consistent and meaningful engagement with suppliers was necessary. How Stone company Hardscape used insights from ETI’s tools to assess and improve its procurement practices, embedding responsible purchasing practices into its operations.
Workers at a manufacturing plant

Responsible purchasing practices in manufacturing industries

  • Public
  • 11 April 2025
  • Tools, Guidelines & Briefings
An overview of ETI's initiative which assessed the extent to which the five overarching principles of the Common Framework for the garment and footwear sector could be effectively applied across other manufacturing sectors.

ETI insights: Mined Minerals & Metals – Challenges & opportunities in HRDD

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  • 3 April 2025
  • Presentations
Presentation and recording from ETI Insights webinar on mined minerals & metals (03 April 2025)
Mining of metals  & minerals

Mining of metals & minerals: A rapid assessment

  • Public
  • 3 April 2025
  • Tools, Guidelines & Briefings
This research report examines the state of human rights due diligence within downstream companies, highlighting critical gaps and opportunities to drive more robust action towards a fairer and more sustainable mining sector.
Manufacturing

Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices in Manufacturing Industries (CFRPP MI)

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  • 26 March 2025
  • Tools, Guidelines & Briefings
The framework is a reference point to support companies in manufacturing industries to engage with stakeholders and take practical action to improve their purchasing practices.

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