Supply Chain Sustainability Policies: State of Play
Supply chains are important levers for achieving sustainability goals and have gained increased corporate, governmental and civil society attention. This white paper charts regulatory dev...
While trade and globalization have created jobs and lifted incomes in some contexts, they have left behind or exploited workers in others. How can trade policy play a positive role in addressing these challenges without straying into protectionism or undermining developing country participation?
Social justice concerns have captured global attention, with growing calls for racial and gender equity and the protection of Indigenous Peoples and migrant populations. There is scope for a new approach to trade policy and practice.
To be truly inclusive, trade must actively work for all sections of society. This involves ensuring access to trade benefits and the mitigation of harms to workers and underserved groups. The Inclusive Trade project brings together multi-stakeholder communities to realize this vision. It furthers research and dialogue and informs trade policymaking and supply chain practices through the following tracks:
- Trade and Labour Programme (with the TASC Platform and funded by Laudes Foundation)
- Trade and Indigenous Peoples Programme
- Supply Chain Sustainability (with the Green Trade project)
For some years, the development of global working conditions has stagnated, to some extent even declined. This 2023 report on World Employment and Social Outlook Trends by the Internation...
Workers around the world are suffering the consequences of unprecedented disruption to international trade at the hands of COVID-19, climate change, geopolitical conflicts and rapid digit...
Indigenous peoples have been engaging in international trade for millennia. In modern economies, Indigenous businesses have demonstrated remarkable resilience with tremendous growth poten...
Ahead of the now postponed 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), member countries are considering how to advance the still incomplete agenda on gender and tra...
Divides and discrimination within countries along the lines of race, ethnicity, gender and Indigenous identity have resulted in longstanding social, economic and political challenges. The...