Human rights

Respecting and promoting human rights is an integral part of our business strategy and a key part of our intention to advance regenerative food systems at scale. Our vision of a regenerative food system has people at the centre. A regenerative food system needs to provide resilient, fair livelihoods and dignified work for people across the world to support themselves and their families.

Key terms explained

Advancing regenerative food systems at scale

Nestlé's intention to advance regenerative food systems at scale means: Advancing by raising Nestlé's voice and using its influence to drive progress, in collaboration with others.
Regenerative to help conserve and restore farmland and landscapes.
Food systems encompassing actors, activities, processes and products involved in growing, raising, making, packaging, delivering and consuming food and the management of food and food-related waste.
At scale because the planet, communities and individuals need global, systems-level change.

Read more about regenerative food systems.

Our progress

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Total messages received through Speak Up system

96.2 %

86.8 %

1209

¹ Concerns only Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Includes mass balance.
² Note that the reporting boundary of this KPI differs from the rest of the other non-GHG ESG KPIs reported here as it excludes Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages. For the exact scope covered, refer to Appendix 1 in the Non-Financial Statement (pdf, 12Mb).

Learn more in the Social Disclosures section of our 2025 Non-Financial Statement (pdf, 12Mb).

SDG contributions

Explore our efforts in support of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in detail.

How we respect and promote human rights

Our approach to human rights

Guided by our Human Rights Framework and Roadmap, we aim to enhance our due diligence by implementing and monitoring action plans designed to address the most salient issues we face across our value chains.

Addressing human rights issues

We have developed dedicated action plans to address the most salient human rights issues in our value chain. These action plans sit at the heart of our approach to human rights and put our Human Rights Framework and Roadmap (pdf, 5Mb) into practice. They help us enhance our level of human rights due diligence throughout our value chain and across priority countries. They articulate our strategy for embedding, assessing, addressing and reporting on each salient issue, defining what we need to do across our business activities, as well as what collective action can be taken. They harness Nestlé's strengths and capacities that we have developed over the years, with those of our value chain partners and our external partners and stakeholders.