4 problems to watch out for in your Human Rights audits

Should we audit our auditors? Here are 4 problems to watch out for in your #humanrights #audits. 

As new legislation starts enforcing more human rights due dilligence in the supply chain, we'll likely see even more activity in an already $80bn industry. 

But can you actually trust those audits? 

And what criteria should your auditors live up to to increase trust in their findings? 

Hannah Dreier from The New York Times recently did a great exposé about this, specifically calling out #childlabor violations where audits had marked no child labor. 

Let me know what you think, and keep an eye out for a subsequent post where we dive deeper in the methodologies of human rights auditors and how you can judge the standards an auditor lives up to. 

Let me know what you think. Should we kill audits? Should we set higher standards? What issues have you experienced with your human rights audits? 

Link to the original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/us/migrant-child-labor-audits.html