The Wikirate Blog
This contribution was written by our Program Manager, Auréliane Froehlich.
Early in 2025, Wikirate partnered with Walk Free to collect data for their report examining the transparency of disclosures under Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Laws (mHRDD) (...) It’s easy to read a report and focus on the findings, but the work behind the numbers often goes unseen. Wikirate and Walk Free analyzed 225 corporate reports (...) some hundreds of pages long, turning dense PDFs into structured, comparable data. The process was complex, time-consuming, and required careful human judgment at every step. (Read more ...)
Laws targeting modern slavery and other human rights abuses in supply chains are multiplying. Disclosure-based laws like the UK and Australian MSAs rely on corporate reporting, and the scrutiny it enables, to encourage action. Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) laws go further, imposing concrete obligations and requiring companies to report on how they meet them. Both types mandate disclosure, but the obligations differ significantly. This raises a key question: how does the type of law shape corporate reporting?
To hold corporations accountable for their impact on people and the planet, whether it’s environmental harm or worker exploitation, changemakers need reliable, accessible data. Yet too often, this data is hard to find, locked in spreadsheets, or duplicated across siloed efforts, limiting its potential to drive real change.
Wikirate has been added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s DPG Registry. A goal of the DPGA is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world.
Wikirate International e.V., announces the launch of the Open Data for Corporate Accountability Network (ODCAN). This new initiative brings together a diverse community of civil society organizations, researchers, journalists, and other stakeholders to advance the use of open data in driving transparency, accountability, and systemic change.
In this blog post, we’re highlighting the work of Arun, a documentary photographer whose work focuses on worker abuse, modern slavery in global supply chains, and migrant workers separated from their loved ones.