27.11.2020

Working Together With Oxfam for Human Rights

In 2020, we began a four-year partnership with OXFAM to strengthen our social sustainability roadmap and conduct a more thorough investigation into the impact of our operations on key human rights. Our aim is to address, mitigate and prevent any adverse effect on the lives of workers and communities along the tuna supply chain, which is one of our most strategic and complex supply chains.

Thanks to the collaboration with Oxfam, we have been strongly advancing our human rights agenda. In 2020, we focused our work on analysing and revising corporate policies related to human rights. This led to the release of a new Bolton Group Human Rights Policy, which was prepared with the support of OXFAM. We also set new relevant goals and actions that will have a tangible impact on the lives of people in our supply chains and communities in which we operate.

Working together with Oxfam for human rights

We have successfully implement a Human Rights Impact Assessment to identify current and potential human rights risks in our tuna supply chain in Ecuador. This due diligence process will provide us with an action plan in order to prevent, mitigate and repair those risks, and guarantee decent working conditions and inclusion along our tuna supply chain in the region.

Helping employees, families and communities

Welfare projects on health and education for our employees, their families, and the communities in Ecuador, Morocco and Solomon Islands, were also at the centre of our social engagement, with more than 2,900 people reached. That’s not all, thanks to this collaboration, we will also develop activity on a living wage, taking into account how rates of pay compare to the local costs of living in areas where we are present.