Theme: Corporate Missconduct, Forced Labour, and Greenwashing
Type: Investigative Audit & Reporting Series
Status: New Initiative Launching Q4
Project Overview
The Liability Report is a deep-dive investigative project aimed at exposing corporate malfeasance—specifically around forced labor, deceptive sustainability practices, ESG manipulation, and profit-driven exploitation. This project scrutinizes multinational corporations’ public claims versus their actual impact on workers, supply chains, and the environment.
Core Objectives
- Identify companies involved in forced labor, wage theft, and exploitative outsourcing.
- Investigate “greenwashing” and false sustainability or ESG claims made by major brands.
- Analyze how corporate structures are used to avoid accountability and taxation.
- Partner with watchdogs, journalists, and unions to ensure findings inform public discourse and policy.
Methodology
- Conduct undercover supply chain investigations and cross-reference public sustainability claims.
- Analyze corporate reports, investor briefings, and shadow ESG data for contradictions.
- Collaborate with survivors of exploitation and workers’ rights groups for first-hand testimony.
Deliverables
- A quarterly Liability Report publication naming complicit companies and detailing systemic patterns.
- Corporate scorecards ranking brands by ethical and transparency performance.
- Interactive datasets accessible to journalists, campaigners, and researchers.
Target Impact
- Pressure corporations to reform exploitative labor practices and remove misleading sustainability claims.
- Equip stakeholders with verified data for advocacy, shareholder pressure, and regulatory action.
- Raise consumer awareness and push for ethical business alternatives.