‘Supermarkets are acknowledging the problems’: Oxfam welcomes Lidl’s human rights efforts Lidl’s industry-first commitment to publish a Human Rights Impact Assessment and mitigation plan illustrates the shifting attitude towards human rights in supply chains from retailers, investors and consumers, says the charity.
The supermarket has revealed new measures to increase transparency of its tea supply chain and go beyond existing requirements to certification schemes. The measures form part of the discounter’s first published Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA), in which it will share the impact of its operations on human rights within the tea supply chain.
Lidl was bottom in Oxfam’s 2019 annual Supermarket Scorecard which assesses supermarkets on their published human rights safeguards. Oxfam’s report last year looked at 16 supermarkets in four countries. Five of the biggest six UK supermarkets subsequently committed to carry out an HRIA.