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A practitioner objects that compliance checks can miss staged or concealed labour abuses unless companies actively seek problems.

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A practitioner objects that compliance checks can miss staged or concealed labour abuses unless companies actively seek problems.

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“A practitioner objects that compliance checks can miss staged or concealed labour abuses unless companies actively seek problems..” The Cleanest Ton: Critical Minerals, Trust, and the New Extractive Bargain. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 18 September 2026. Session time 38:02–39:14. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-b859b2a01791

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A practitioner objects that compliance checks can miss staged or concealed labour abuses unless companies actively seek problems.

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Proposed mechanism: Anticipated checks can be evaded; detection depends on investigative intent.

Conditions: Commitment to discovering harms beyond formal compliance.

Limit: Individual field account; no prevalence estimate or named investigation.

due diligenceaccountabilitynegative case learning

Where it connects.

Better assurance requires incentives that reward finding and addressing problems.

More complete checking can expose failings while making a verifier commercially less attractive. Human judgement, consequences and shared expectations are necessary complements to automation.

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