As the EU weighs its Corporate Sustainability Due Dilligence (CSDDD) initiative, a brief lays out the dangers of relying on discredited CSR & auditing schemes to protect human rights. 

Instead, they point to Worker-driven Social Responsibility as the one model that puts rights-holders first.

“The difference between [Worker-driven Social Responsibility] and industry initiatives is so significant that it is “one of kind, not of degree.” They are credible alternatives to industry initiatives, not an evolution from or variation of them. If the EU Directive is to promote uptake of any private initiative at all, this should be the model it promotes.”