Background

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The dynamic landscape of Business and Human Rights regulations globally has created a position of uncertainty for businesses striving for compliance. Our approach, in this context, is to provide an impact-driven solution that prioritises the identification of primary human rights harms and assesses their scale, scope, and remediability. This moves beyond a mere compliance-focused mindset to one that drives meaningful change, protecting fundamental rights rather than simply avoiding legal penalties or adverse publicity.

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This session will address the key "pain points" businesses face today, particularly the challenge of vetting thousands or hundreds of thousands of suppliers within their vast and global supply chain. We will provide practical insights as case studies, based on client feedback on how the Supply Unchained solution directly addresses these issues. The technology helps businesses save a significant amount of time by providing end-to-end support for risk assessment and continuous monitoring. It also tackles the difficulty suppliers face with tedious questionnaires by offering an easy-to-use portal that increases engagement and reduces the time they spend on providing data. The solution includes AI-driven document verification, intelligent workflows for evidence collection, and a dynamic dashboard for continuous risk monitoring, in addition to an expert lawyer review and approval to verify the process.

 

This session is more than a discussion of technology; it is an invitation to reshape our approach to human rights due diligence. By combining impact-driven strategies with innovative technology, we can move beyond simply reacting to crises and instead proactively build transparent, accountable, and rights-respecting supply chains at a global scale. This is about leveraging technology not just for efficiency, but as a powerful tool to drive meaningful change and safeguard human rights for all.

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Key Objectives

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• Identify Human Rights Risks: To understand the complexities of identifying human rights risks in vast and intricate global supply chains.

• Demonstrate a Technology Solution: To provide a live demonstration of the Supply Unchained technology as a solution for identifying salient risks within a business and its supply chain.

• Discuss a Harms-Based Framework: To explore a harms-based framework for human rights due diligence that is regulation-agnostic, impact-driven, expert-led, and technology-enabled.

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Guiding Questions

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• What are the key human rights challenges you currently face within your own supply chains, particularly those operating in the Asia Pacific region?

• Thinking about your current processes, what are your greatest "pain points" when it comes to identifying, managing, or remediating human rights risks? Where do you feel the biggest burdens lie?

• What are you currently doing to address human rights due diligence? Are you using technology, and if so, what kind?

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Format

• This will be an interactive lecture presentation that includes live poll voting through Menti for audience participation. Attendees will be notified of a QR code to log in and can participate in the voting. Attendees will have the option for questions and to participate in offering perspectives and suggestions of practical approaches to this problem.

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Session Partners