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ADA has introduced a new Risk Level filter, making it easier for users to identify, compare and prioritise human rights risks across their value chains.

The new functionality allows users to filter heatmap results by severity score, helping them focus on the risks most relevant to their analysis.

Users can now:

• Select a single risk level or a range on ADA’s 1–10 severity scale
• Highlight matching risks directly within their heatmap
• Compare results more easily, with risks outside the selected range greyed out

The new filter provides a more focused view of risk exposure across countries, tiers and human rights risk categories.

ADA has expanded its Tier 2–3 textile manufacturing and processing coverage to include Brazil, Taiwan and Bangladesh, building on its existing country risk profiles for China, India and Pakistan.

The new profiles provide further insights into human rights and labour risks beyond finished goods manufacturing.

In Bangladesh, freedom of association and collective bargaining, violence and harassment, wage compliance, living wages, occupational health and safety, and working hours are all rated as severe risks.

ADA has expanded its Tier 1 – Finished Goods coverage to include Egypt, providing new insights into human rights and labour risks in the country’s garment manufacturing sector.

Despite Egypt’s highly restricted civic space and limited opportunities for independent stakeholder engagement, ADA’s latest country risk profile identifies several significant risks, including:

• Child labour
• Freedom of association and collective bargaining
• Wage compliance and living wages
• Occupational health and safety

All four risk categories are rated as severe, while forced labour, discrimination, violence and harassment, working hours and precarious work are rated as medium risks.

ADA has expanded its human rights risk coverage to include Tier 0 – Distribution, with new country risk profiles for Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK.

The new profiles extend ADA’s coverage beyond manufacturing and production to the distribution stage of garment value chains, highlighting risks including:

• Occupational health and safety, rated as a severe risk across all three countries
• Forced labour, rated as a medium risk across all three countries
• Violence and harassment, identified as a medium risk in Belgium and the UK
• Precarious work, identified as a medium risk in the Netherlands and the UK

Additional Tier 0 country profiles are currently in development, further expanding ADA’s coverage across the garment value chain.