The practice of human rights due diligence: Our 2024 Annual Report
The practice of human rights due diligence has been the theme of 2024. Our Annual Report focused on its prerequisites: increasing supply chain transparency for workers and public buyers; collecting credible evidence for rights violations; and coordinating meaningful engagement with workers and their representatives to remedy rights violations in public supply chains.
The perspectives we share are as important as our practice. At a time when workers are often denigrated, our monitoring reports describe migrant workers who defend their rights with courage and dignity and women workers who fight gender-based violence and harassment. In a corrosively divisive world, we promoted creative collaboration between public buyers, civil society actors and industry to better identify and assess risks to workers and advance remediation for those who experience harms. Facts matter. The truth matters. But these are often obscured. Gathering credible evidence is a valued and essential activity.
Key achievements from 2024 include:
- A 114% increase in the number of affiliates soliciting production locations from their suppliers compared to 2023
- Worker-driven monitoring at 36 factories and 8 mines, employing over 200,000 workers
- 40 public authorities participated in at least one working group or collective action facilitated by Electronics Watch
- New tools to support affiliates in implementing human rights due diligence
- Resellers provided 62% of the factory data disclosed to affiliates, alleviating concerns that only brands can provide this information.
Read the 2024 Annual Report (Spanish, French and German translations forthcoming).