amfori Advocacy
Stakeholder Engagement
amfori is committed to working with our community, inside and outside our industry, locally and globally, to further our mission of Trade with Purpose. In order to achieve our goals, it is crucial to collaborate, communicate and build alliances in order to drive impact.
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Combatting State-Imposed Forced Labour
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Building Partnerships
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Gender Equality
Combatting State-Imposed Forced Labour
Towards more Effective Action through Alliances
Tackling all forms of forced labour in supply chains represents a crucial part of achieving amfori’s mission to enable all our members to enhance human prosperity. Over the course of 2020, we have been particularly engaged in this topic, through refining our tools on the specific practice of State Imposed Forced Labour (SIFL) enhances our ability to advance on this mission and also through engaging on a global level to build progress in this area. In June 2020, we published our guidance on State-Imposed Forced Labour, which summarises our approach to making improvements along supply chains on SIFL.
Gender Equality
Empowering Women from Headquarters to the Factory Floor
Through amfori’s BSCI system and our advocacy service, we are wholeheartedly committed to a world where women are championed. In 2020, amfori has been proud to significantly progress our engagement and offering on gender equality. Most significantly, we were proud to sign the UN’s Women Empowerment Principles, alongside the publication of our Gender Strategy and the launch of the WEPs Activator programme. Equal treatment for all genders has always been a cornerstone of the amfori BSCI system. Our activities here follow our engagement in empowering women formally since 2018, where we launched the amfori Women Empowerment Programme.
Responsible Recruitment
amfori Extends Partnership with International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
amfori and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) have extended our Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which was originally signed in 2017. This agreement strengthens the efforts that amfori has already put toward developing an amfori BSCI Module on Responsible Recruitment. To date, this includes a set of guidelines on responsible recruitment practices and tailored training material. This MoU provides a long-term framework for further collaboration, until at least 2023. The partnership will take steps to protect migrant workers along supply chains in key sourcing countries for amfori members. We began our collaboration with the IOM in 2016 working on forced labour and migration in the food and fisheries industries in Thailand.
Living Wage
Taking Stock and Setting a Way Forward
At amfori we firmly believe that every worker should earn a living wage. We must strive towards its implementation in our members’ global supply chains to enable all workers and their families to break out of poverty and live a decent life. In 2020, we published our position paper outlining this view. Since its early stages, amfori has actively contributed to developing new approaches to advance the adoption of living wage standards in global supply chains and remains committed to doing so. We believe that the way forward will be achieved through continuous improvement and collaboration with our members.