The coronavirus crisis is causing bottlenecks in the raw materials supply chain. In resource-rich South Africa, a 21-day curfew was decided. This also affects, for example, platinum, gold and iron ore mines. This shows how fragile our global supply chains are. But hardly anyone asks in normal times how people work at the beginning of supply chains. People are regularly displaced for mining projects, activists and journalists are murdered and the environment and livelihoods of many people are destroyed. Why the sector is so susceptible to human rights violations and why we finally need a German supply chain law, is what the 5. Episode of Compass World Economy.
Podcast No. 5 – Raw materials and human rights – why we need a supply chain law!
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