According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), at any given time an estimated 40.3 million people globally are in modern slavery, which includes 24.9 million in forced labour. In recognition of this reality many governments across the globe have adopted, or are in the process of adopting, Modern Slavery reporting requirements which require organisations to report publicly on the steps they are taking to combat slavery and human trafficking in their supply chains. The effect of this reporting requirement is that companies will need to examine their supply chains to identify whether there is a risk of modern slavery occurring, before they can report on the steps they are undertaking to combat modern slavery.

To aid corporates to satisfy these reporting requirements and assess Modern Slavery risk within their supply chains, ethiXbase has collaborated with a global law firm* Norton Rose Fulbright to develop our Modern Slavery Questionnaire – a supply chain risk assessment which combines a questionnaire and risk computations for third parties to help businesses identify the potential for human rights abuses across their supply and manufacturing chains.

The Modern Slavery Questionnaire, which applies know-how developed by Norton Rose Fulbright using their global expertise, focuses on a critical area of reputational and increasingly legal risk and is offered via the ethiXbase 360 Third-Party Risk Management Platform and is an integral component of the ethiXbase Human Rights Module.