A Global South perspective
Eighteen human rights and environmental due diligence laws now set the terms of trade with the world's largest markets. We track every one of them monthly and explain what each will ask of you.
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Changelog
Revised reporting standards published on 21 September 2026 and in force from 10 November, with the value chain cap now final.
Leather left the scope on 18 September 2026, when Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102 entered into force.
Due diligence applies from 18 August 2027
Articles
For a decade, producing countries appeared in due diligence law only as risk geographies. Now Thailand drafts its own HREDD bill and India audits its own chains. A survey of the south as author rather than object.
Thailand has drafted a due diligence law, India has built mandatory ESG disclosure with value chain reach, and Italy's producers are demanding their own certification statute. What changes when the objects of due diligence law become its authors?
These rules are written in Brussels, Washington and Canberra, but they are answered on factory floors in Dhaka, Hanoi and Nairobi. We publish for the businesses that answer them.
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