Leadership and Continuous Development
Mainstreaming and embedding respect for human rights through smart HRDD system, leading to more resilient, sustainable, and responsible businesses.
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Human Rights
Leading industry actions to respect human rights
Forced labour has no place in our industry
50 million people remain trapped in modern slavery worldwide, with 86% in the private sector generating over USD 230 billion in illegal profits each year.
Despite legal prohibitions, these abuses persist across regions and economies, often hidden deep in supply chains. As regulatory demands and stakeholder expectations grow, robust human rights due diligence is no longer optional — it’s a moral, legal, and business imperative.
Working together to strengthen human rights due diligence and address systemic risks
Since its launch in 2020, the Coalition has brought together consumer goods companies united by a mission: to eradicate forced labour and embed human rights due diligence (HRDD) in their individual business operations. The Coalition’s members represent an estimated $1.7 trillion in combined annual revenue and supply chains that reach millions of suppliers and workers worldwide. The Coalition, like the CGF as a whole, exists to serve companies of all sizes, from manufacturers to retailers, at different points in the value chain and at varying levels of maturity in HRDD.
Our governance
Our objectives
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Action for Systemic Change
Overcoming shared human rights challenges, improving efficiency, reducing duplication, and promoting the harmonisation of efforts.
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Elevating Human Rights
With the most senior levels of business, advocating for an enabling environment to support the integration of human rights into business.
Our achievements
The Human Rights Coalition's key milestones and publications to date:
Our working groups
Human Rights Coalition members collaborate via the following voluntary workstreams:
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Ethical recruitment marketplace
Making ethical recruitment the norm by addressing the economic root causes and drivers of exploitative recruitment practices.
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Corporate affairs & advocacy
Advocacy for regulatory and policy environments that support the integration of pragmatic HRDD into business
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Collaborations
Advocating for human rights to be considered as part of the CGF’s broader work streams and activities.
Our resources
Your Human Rights team
Our latest news
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See moreStakeholder workshop on indigenous peoples and community land rights
Ahead of The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Sustainable Retail Summit, our Human Rights Coalition (HRC) and Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI) convened a stakeholder engagement workshop at the New Cap… -
See moreTackling Forced Labour Through Human Rights Due Diligence — the Human Rights Coalition’s Own Operations Maturity Report
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The Consumer Goods Forum’s Human Rights Coalition Shares Member Progress in Tackling Forced Labour