These publications offer technical guidance and strategic resources developed by Embode’s global team of specialists in social protection and sustainability.
In 2023, Embode partnered with AIM-Progress and nine of its member companies to launch the Ganapati Responsible Recruitment Project, an 18-month pilot initiative designed to improve supplier engagement and foster responsible recruitment practices in Thailand and Malaysia.
Embode provided strategic advice following a consultative review of Mondelēz International’s global cocoa sustainability programme, Cocoa Life.
Commissioned by Global Child Forum, this study presents a set of ten sustainable business approaches, from around the world, to combat child labour together
Commissioned by NGOCRC Cambodia, this manual outlines a series of good practices relating to child participation and children’s right to be heard in Cambodia.
This section features Embode’s publications that offers human rights impact assessments and issue-focused research on child labour, forced labour, human trafficking, gender and more.
The Responsible Mica Initiative and Embode have assessed social and human rights risks within the mica supply chains of Brazil and Malaysia.
Embode, in partnership with AIM Progress, conducted a consultation with supply chain businesses in India, Indonesia and Thailand to better understand their experiences with HRDD.
Embode conducted the Capacity Needs Assessment for the Protection of Child rights that explores 6 ASEAN countries and their response to human trafficking .
The reports presents findings from a study jointly commissioned by Bunge Loders Croklaan, Cargill and Mondelēz International, to assess the situation of migrant labour in Malaysia, with a focus on the palm oil sector.
This section features all publicly released reports that reference Embode’s work in corporate human rights due diligence (HRDD), human rights impact assessments and issue-focused research on child labour, forced labour, human trafficking, gender and more.
In the Food and Beverage Benchmark Report 2026, the Business and Human Rights Centre and Know the Chain highlighted the Ganapati Initiative as a best-practice model for addressing forced labour.
This report summarises all panel sessions at the 2025 UNRBHR Forum where Embode co-organised and spoke at four different sessions.
Embode contributed its expertise to this evidence-based report, offering insights into how businesses in Asia can shift toward a rights-holder approach when addressing informal work.
Unilever featured Embode’s Forced Labour Assessment as part of their 2025 Modern Slavery Statement.
Explore all recorded webinars, podcasts, capacity building trainings and panel discussions delivered by Embode.
The Be Slavery Free – Embode five-part webinar series held in 2021 explores the complexities of child labour. The third in the five part series looks at the laws and the remediation frameworks with experts who have on-the-ground experience.
Aarti Kapoor, Executive Direcotr at Embode, delivered her presentation at the 2020 Asia Region Anti-Trafficking (ARAT)
Aarti Kapoor, Executive Director at Embode, delivered her presentation at the 2021 Asia Region Anti-Trafficking Conference.
The Be Slavery Free – Embode five-part webinar series held in 2021 explores the complexities of child labour. In part two we look at The Root Causes of Child Labour.
A webinar on ‘An Introduction to Child Labour’ as part of “Are we there yet?” a collaborative series of webinars on child labour being conducted by Embode and Be Slavery Free to mark 2021 as the International Year of Elimination of Child Labour.
Aarti Kapoor, Executive Director of Embode is in conversation with Rebekah O’Rourkein her Podcast series, ‘Experience: Our Ally at Work’, to discuss the unseen forces in human rights at work.
