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2025 Update: The State of Modern Slavery and Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
Modern slavery affects over 50 million people globally, including 28 million people trapped in forced labor. Your company with its global value chain has a responsibility to help mitigate the situation. Originally published to help businesses navigate modern slavery and human rights developments worldwide, our updated 2025 eBook now replaces the previous edition — retaining all the critical insights from the original while integrating the latest changes from the EU’s 2025 Omnibus Package.
This annual e-book presents a roundup of modern slavery and human rights legislations and initiatives worldwide and offers practical strategies for managing reporting and due diligence requirements for you and your value chain.
What’s New in This Edition?
In early 2025, the EU Omnibus Package proposed substantive amendments to CSDDD, now under legislative debate. These proposed changes aim to simplify how companies approach human rights due diligence without reducing accountability.
Key updates include:
- In-depth risk assessments are now only required for indirect suppliers where “plausible information” indicates a potential risk.
- Despite the simplification, companies must still map their full supply chains to identify areas of greatest risk.
- CSRD reporting deadlines have been delayed for second- and third-wave companies, but transparency expectations remain high.
This edition reflects these important shifts while still delivering the foundational insights of the original eBook.
Download the eBook to:
- Understand Global Compliance Obligations: Get up to speed with modern slavery and human rights laws in 15+ jurisdictions, including the EU’s CSDDD, Germany’s LkSG, Canada’s Forced Labour Act, and the U.S. Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
- Prepare for the EU’s 2025 CSDDD Requirements: Learn what’s expected of companies under the revised Omnibus Proposal — from supply chain mapping to risk-based due diligence focused on Tier 1 suppliers.
- Adapt to Shifting Reporting Expectations: See how delays in CSRD sector-specific deadlines impact your reporting timeline, and how broader ESG disclosure mandates are evolving across Europe.
- Stay Ahead of Enforcement Trends: Explore how legislation is expanding enforcement powers and holding both EU and non-EU companies accountable for their supply chain practices.
- Anticipate Regulatory Spillover: See how EU directives are influencing national laws like Germany’s LkSG and shaping broader global compliance expectations.
- Streamline Risk Management: Discover how to identify, prioritise, and address human rights risks in your operations and third-party networks — even as assessment cycles shift from annual to every five years under the new rules.
At Ethixbase360, we provide practical tools and expert guidance to help you go beyond check-the-box compliance — and drive meaningful change.
