On page 5: "Apple’s Global Security Investigations and Child Safety team supports implementation of our policies focused on child protection at all levels of our software platforms and services, and throughout our supply chain."
On page 6: "To safeguard supplier employees, we have pioneered new standards, tools, and practices to identify our suppliers’ labor agencies, regardless of whether they recruit domestic labor or FCWs."
p. 10: "In 2022, we also began requiring use of our Responsible Labor Recruitment Due Diligence Toolkit for all prospective suppliers engaged in the procurement process, enabling them to conduct self-assessments, risk assessments of their labor agencies, and evaluation of their processes for worker interviews and grievance management."
For "Conducting research": p. 6: "In addition to consistently and proactively monitoring for risks, and our own extensive research, we also review reports that come to us from civil society organizations, news outlets, people in the supply chain or supply chain communities, local whistleblower mechanisms, and third-party hotlines."
More on "Conducting research" and "Risk-based questionnaire":
p. 6: We also identify salient human rights risks through our own risk analysis and through the channels we maintain with key rights-holders, stakeholders, and partners. These channels include supplier employee interviews and surveys; consultations with human rights, labor, and environmental experts; expert groups we convene on specialized or emerging human rights topics; UN and government labor and human rights reporting and consultations; media reports; the results of our supplier assessments; discussions with supplier management teams; and reports received through our partners around the world