At the 2026 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector

Date: February 9, 2026

Time: 6:00PM – 7:00PM CET

Location/Format: Virtual panel discussion

Session Description

Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers power the global garment and footwear industries, but companies often have little insight into the organizations that facilitate their recruitment, transportation, and employment and there are few established channels to regulate international labor recruiters. Organized and fair labor migration benefits all parties—workers, employers, and both sending and destination countries—but without effective oversight, migrant workers are among the most vulnerable groups to forced labor and other human rights abuse in global supply chains.  

Over the past 10 years, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Social Accountability International (SAI), and a coalition of other partners have piloted and launched IRIS: the International Recruitment Integrity Standard in response to this gap. IRIS empowers employers and workers to identify ethical recruiters and make informed decisions about recruitment by defining a benchmark for ethical recruitment (IRIS Standard), building labor recruiters’ capacity for ethical operation (IRIS Capacity Building Program), and establishing a voluntary certification for labor recruiters (IRIS Certification).  

Join our distinguished panelists for a dynamic discussion of the challenges to ethical recruitment in our current context, successes and learnings from the IRIS program thus far, and the future outlook for ensuring ethical recruitment in coming years.  

Speakers and panelists: 

• Hannah Crane, Senior Manager of Corporate Programs at SAI 
• Anna Pienaar, Head of Unit – Migration, Business & Human Rights at IOM 
• Pranay Rai, Director – Compliance & Business at IMR (an IRIS-certified labor recruiter) 
• Additional speakers TBC 

Registration

Forum side sessions are open to the public. You do not need to be registered for the Forum to attend the side session.

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