Advancing human rights

Just as we’re committed to promoting the rights of our employees, we’re committed to working with our suppliers to embed respect for human rights in their operations and supply chains and to help us further our goal to support the fundamental dignity of everyone we work with.

Our human rights strategy is informed by leading international standards and frameworks developed by the United Nations (UN) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). We’re committed to respecting and supporting the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Core Conventions of the ILO, and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.

Our strategy to deliver on these commitments is based on the UNGPs and has five pillars:

• Developing and maintaining strong policies and standards
• Embedding human rights into our business operations and decision-making
• Assessing, prioritizing, and addressing risk
• Engaging with stakeholders
• Improving access to effective grievance mechanisms and remediation procedures
  

Identifying and prioritizing the most salient risks connected to Amazon operations and business relationships is central to our human rights due diligence practices. We completed an enterprise-wide human rights saliency assessment in 2020. Through this assessment, we identified nine salient human rights risks across our operations and business relationships.

Each year, we expand on our commitment to conduct business-specific human rights assessments, ensuring we’re always raising the bar on how we evaluate and respond to risks across our operations and supply chain. Our salient human rights risks:

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion

• Safe and healthy working conditions

• Modern slavery and forced labor

• Fair wages and hours

• Freedom of association

• Future of work

• Right to privacy

• Product safety and security

• Social, economic, and environmental justice