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24 mai 2007

Business Linkages: Lessons, opportunities, and challenges

a publication by IBLF, Harvard University and the International Finance Corporation IBLF_BusinessLinkages0705 With support from Business Action for Africa and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands For large firms, globalization has generated...
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23 mai 2007

Banana firm 'exploits migrants'

Banana firm 'exploits migrants'
Pratt's Bananas supplies fruit to leading supermarkets A leading supplier of fair trade fruit has been accused of exploiting Eastern European migrant workers in the UK. Workers at Pratt's Bananas in Luton, Beds, say they have to work excessive hours,...
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22 mai 2007

Textiles pair do their bit for Mideast peace

Financial Times Two noble goals - the promotion of Middle East peace and the ethical production of sweatshop- free clothing - are being combined in a project launched by a Jewish American businessman and his Palestinian supplier in the West Bank. Adam...
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21 mai 2007

Nike to promote workers’ rights

FT By Jonathan Birchall in New York Nike , the world’s largest sports shoe and clothing brand, is to strengthen efforts to combat potential abuses of the 800,000 workers in its global supply chain with a push to promote labour rights, including the freedoms...
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14 mai 2007

Investor forces ethics on to Tesco agenda

The Guardian , Julia Finch, City editor A small shareholder has amassed enough support to force the issue of ethical trading with suppliers onto the agenda at Tesco's annual shareholders' meeting. Ben Birnberg, a retired solicitor, wants to force the...
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10 mai 2007

Reporting initiative targets small suppliers

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and German development agency GTZ have launched a project to help small suppliers improve their sustainability reporting. Established in 1997, the GRI was co-founded by US ethical investment body CERES and UNEP, to...
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28 avril 2007

Sainsbury's denies double standards in 'bag for life' row

Independent, Terri Judd, Sainsbury's was embroiled in an embarrassing row yesterday after claims that its "green" shopping bag was anything but ethical...But yesterday it emerged that the bag was made in China, a country known for appalling labour conditions....
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26 avril 2007

Child labourers toil in Thai seafood factories

SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand (Reuters) - It is 7.30 in the evening and an excited chatter fills the room as 11-year-old Nampeung and her friends get their work checked before clearing their desks and heading home. But this is no scene from the end of a school...
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23 avril 2007

6p a T-shirt. 30p an hour for shelling cashews. Supermarkets accused of exploiting women

The Guardian , Terry Macalister An independent watchdog should be set up to ensure supermarkets do not drive their profits higher on the back of vulnerable workers in developing countries while presenting themselves as socially responsible companies at...
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22 avril 2007

The human cost of cheap high street clothes

The Observer , Dan McDougall in New Delhi and Jamie Doward The article below referred to Haryana as a lawless area of New Delhi, India's capital. It is actually a small state in northern India with a population of more than two million. Two of Britain's...
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