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Discussion paper

Towards Meaningful Human Rights Impact Assessments: From supermarket commitments to best practice action

11/01/2024

2 documents

55 pages long

Languages: English

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This discussion paper focuses on the commitments that Dutch, German and UK supermarkets made as part of the Behind the Barcodes campaign to conduct human rights impact assessments (HRIAs). To understand whether supermarkets are meaningfully implementing those commitments and to support learning, this paper analyses the HRIAs that supermarkets have published in the past four […]

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Briefing paper

Turning Point: A three year update on US supermarkets’ progress and pitfalls

07/04/2022

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the global landscape of the food retail industry has dramatically shifted. There is now greater awareness of how wealth and gender inequalities have been exacerbated; the power of workers in the United States (US) has been awakened; the vulnerability of global supply chains has been exposed; big retailers are competing […]

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Research report

Behind the Barcodes 2022 Supermarket Scorecard and Data

05/04/2022

8 documents

Languages: English

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This is the 2022 update to the Supermarket Scorecard, part of the Behind the Barcodes campaign that Oxfam launched in 2018 to expose the economic exploitation faced by millions of small-scale farmers and workers in food supply chains, and mobilize the power of people around the world to help end it. The Supermarket Scorecard assesses […]

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Briefing paper

From Risk to Resilience: A good practice guide for food retailers addressing human rights in their supply chains

21/07/2020

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper offers timely insights on emerging good practices to address exploitation in global food supply chains, based on 26 key informant interviews, and analysis of Oxfam's latest Supermarkets Scorecard. While the coronavirus that ignited the global crisis is new, the underlying issues plaguing agricultural supply chains are not. Reducing risks and improving resilience in […]

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Research report

Behind the Barcodes Supermarket Scorecard 2020 Data

30/06/2020

1 documents

Languages: English

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This is the 2020 update to the supermarket scorecard, part of the Behind the Barcodes campaign that Oxfam launched in 2018 to expose the economic exploitation faced by millions of small-scale farmers and workers in food supply chains, and mobilize the power of people around the world to help end it. The campaign is underpinned by extensive […]

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Briefing paper

Sweet and Sour: An investigation of conditions on tropical fruit farms in North-East Brazil

10/10/2019

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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A government policy of periodically raising the minimum wage, proactive enforcement of the minimum wage, and clear labour laws have raised incomes and reduced inequality between men and women workers in Brazil over the past 20 years. However, these gains are now at risk from recent labour reforms. This briefing paper, part of Oxfam’s campaign […]

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Towards Meaningful Human Rights Impact Assessments: From supermarket commitments to best practice action

Turning Point: A three year update on US supermarkets’ progress and pitfalls

Behind the Barcodes 2022 Supermarket Scorecard and Data

From Risk to Resilience: A good practice guide for food retailers addressing human rights in their supply chains

Behind the Barcodes Supermarket Scorecard 2020 Data

Sweet and Sour: An investigation of conditions on tropical fruit farms in North-East Brazil