Resources
For more information about the movement to end forced labor in the building materials supply chain, explore relevant resources below.
Design for Freedom Resources
Design for Freedom International Guidance & Toolkit
The Design for Freedom International Guidance & Toolkit provides insights and inspiration from international leaders and experts working in all parts of the build environment. It has been updated with new tools including sample specifications, updated material tracking spreadsheets, relevant certifications, supply chain risk technology platforms, research, and added rigor and alignment with existing global frameworks.
Ethical Supply Chain Workshop Insights
co-hosted with Turner and US State Dept. Bureau
of Overseas Buildings Operations on 11/4/23
Pilot Project Case Studies
Industry Resource Highlights
Reports, Research, and Tools
The Regenerative Materials Movement: Dispatches from Practitioners, Researchers, and Advocates
featuring “Embodied Suffering” by Sharon Prince
International Living Future Institute
The Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University and Material Research L3C
Overexposed: Uyghur Region Exposure Assessment for Solar Industry Sourcing
The Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University
Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future
The UN Environment Program and the Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture
An Innovation Pathway to Decarbonization: circular economy solutions for policy makes and industry in the U.S.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Accelerating Change: The Potential of Capital Market Actors in Addressing Modern Slavery
Finance Against Slavery and Tracking
Additional Reports, Research, and Tools
- A Blueprint for Mobilizing Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking
- Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, ILO
- Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield, Hallam University
- Interactive Map for Business of Anti-Human Trafficking Organisations
- International Trade Union Confederation – Global Rights Index
- MIT Living Wage Calculator
- Modern Slavery Statement Registry
- Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labor
- Rights Lab, University of Nottingham
- Responsible Sourcing Tool
ReStructure Lab - Supply Chain Sustainability School
- UNEP Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future, Report, September 2023
- UNEP Global Material Flows Database
- United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Reports – Gender Inequality Index (GII)
- U.S. Department of Labor – Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor
- 2024 World Justice Project Rule of Law Index®
Civil Society Organizations
- Anti-Slavery Collective
- Unicef Child Rights and Business
- International Labour Organization
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
Due Diligence and Risk Management
- AA1000 Assurance Standard
- Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
- Chinese Due Diligence Guidelines for Responsible Mineral Supply Chains
- Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI)
- Corporate Register for CSR Reports
- Consumer Goods Forum: Sustainable Supply
- Chain Initiative (SSCI)
- E2open
- Equitable Origin
- EO100 Standard for Responsible Energy
- Everyone’s Business
- Guide on Social Responsibility for Chinese
- International Contractors
- ISO 26000
- (IHRB) Institute of Human Rights Business
- Know The Chain
- UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- S&P Global Dow Jones Index ESG Score Methodology
- Social Hotspots Database
- Stronger Together US
- Together for Sustainability
- Verisk Maplecroft
Circularity
- Circular Construction Lab, Cornell University
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Circular Economy
- Modeling and Analysis
- United Nations Environment Programme: Building Circularity
- World Circular Economy Forum
Biobased Materials
- Circularity and Biobased Materials in Architecture and Design
- Global ABC: Sustainable Materials Hub
- Northeast Bio-based Materials Collective Summit Proceedings
Source Data
- Global Slavery Index, Walk Free
- Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- Trafficking in Persons Report
- U.S. Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor
