Articles
Analysis, commentary and field reporting, written from the supplier side of the chain rather than the boardroom side.
The cosmetic giant was found liable by a French court on the 12th of March, 2026 for failing to identify risks of labour violations within its Turkish subsidiary.
A three-year masterclass in procedural evasion reveals the limits of the French Duty of Vigilance Act for global south plaintiffs.
The final omnibus text is now law, and the directive that emerges is a different instrument from the one adopted in 2024. A clause-level reading of what got easier, what got harder, and who was consulted about neither.
Europe simplified its due diligence laws for European companies. For the suppliers who answer their questionnaires, the burden simply changed shape.
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.
Cutting a risky supplier cleans the buyer's ledger and abandons the workers the exercise claimed to protect. An op-ed on the economics of compliance, and a workable model for sharing its cost in good faith.
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