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29 juin 2007

Opinion paper released on supply chain transparency

Transparency and sustainability are issues capturing the attention of many partners along the supply chain. On the supply-side, many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) find that the inclusion in a global supply chain is a reason to begin to engage...

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11 juillet 2007

Labour legislation – Sweatshop law could prove stifling

New anti-sweatshop legislation in the US may provide a setback to brand and retailer collaboration on responsible sourcing initiatives, says Rachelle Jackson In April, legislation was introduced into the US House of Representatives that would ban the...

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9 juillet 2007

Illegal logging – China’s big wooden problem

Chinese wood manufacturers have poor records on using illegal timber. But the industry is changing, say Sarah Price and Matthew Brady Throughout the tropics, illegal logging and unregulated land clearance are decimating tropical forests. Weak governance...

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10 juillet 2007

Equal Exchange Brings Fair Trade to Small-Scale Tea Growers

Seven New Premium, Organic Teas Put Small Farmers First & Challenge Fair Trade Plantation Model (CSRwire) WEST BRIDGEWATER, MA— July 10, 2007 —In a move intended to catalyze changes in the tea industry, Equal Exchange announces today seven new premium,...

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10 juillet 2007

BSR Outlines Vision at UN Global Compact Summit: Moving "Beyond Monitoring" for Sustainable Supply Chains

(CSRwire) Geneva, Switzerland – 10 July 2007 – At last week's UN Global Compact Summit in Geneva, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) presented "Beyond Monitoring: A New Vision for Supply Chain Management," a report that outlines a comprehensive...

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31 mai 2007

Nike vows crackdown on overtime

BBC Nike has pledged to crack down on the amount of overtime done at factories it uses worldwide as part of efforts to improve working conditions. The sportswear firm will seek to abolish "excessive" overtime at its 700 contract factories by 2011...The...

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31 mai 2007

Nike to promote workers’ rights

Author: Jonathan Birchall, FT Nike...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 to form and join trades unions. The company says it...

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14 juin 2007

CLEAN CLOTHES CAMPAIGN SUMMONED TO INDIAN COURT IN ALLEGED DEFAMATION CASE

Following their efforts to draw attention to rights violations at an Indian garment factory, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and the India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN) have been summoned to appear in a Bangalore court on June 25, 2007. This is...

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3 avril 2007

Sedex Announces Best Practice Guidance & Common Report Format

Sedex (The Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) is pleased to announce the official launch of SMETA, S edex M embers E thical T rade A udit. SMETA represents a further step forward in the Sedex vision of encouraging and enabling convergence in ethical trade...

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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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22 mars 2007

Refuse To Cooperate With Illegal Factories

Twelve global companies whose annual combined sales exceed US$147 billion say they will not cooperate with Chinese factories that use children labor or ask employees to work excessive hours. The 12 companies include Brookstone, one of the largest retailers...

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4 avril 2007

The Dark side of Healthcare

The Dark side of Healthcare - a report about Swedish county councils’ procurement of goods from India and Pakistan Author: Kristina Bjurling (SwedWatch), with Fair Trade Center, Clean Clothes Campaign Sweden The Dark side of Healthcare (2007) is a report...

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27 mars 2007

True & Profitable Sustainability Management

Survey Shows Most Firms Currently Lack Formal Strategies and Processes to Fulfill Sustainability Commitments Supply Management is a "Litmus Test" of "Sustainability" Initiatives March 27, 2007 — While a majority of North American firms in the survey (almost...

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3 avril 2007

Corporate Codes of Labour Practice: Can the Most Vulnerable Workers Benefit?

Stephanie Barrientos, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex [UK] ...[A] large number of global buyers and retailers have introduced codes of labour practice to ensure their suppliers observe minimum international labour standards. But...

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20 avril 2007

IT firms compromise on global injustice

Mark Ballard, Register [UK] The International Labour Organisation (ILO)…called a meeting of manufacturers, industry bodies, governments, and unions, who spent two days hammering out a compromise...The text, however, appears to commit them - voluntarily...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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25 mai 2007

Nike to resume football production in Pakistan

Author: Jonathan Birchall, Financial Times Nike, the official supplier of soccer balls to the English Premier Football League, is to resume making hand-stitched leather balls in Pakistan, six months after it stopped production there amid child-labour...

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6 juin 2007

How Cocoa fuelled the conflict in Côte d’Ivoire

Global Witness’s first report dedicated to the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire – documents how revenues from the cocoa trade have contributed to funding armed conflict and how opportunities for enrichment from cocoa through corruption and misuse of revenues,...

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20 juin 2007

Gildan gets FLA accreditation

WASHINGTON – Canadian apparel firm Gildan Activewear has had its labour compliance programs accredited by the Fair Labor Association (FLA), which is the first time that brands which also manufactures its own products has been accredited. Gildan is already...

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28 octobre 2007

The Gap Sweatshop Story: Child Labor in India. What happened?

Source: http://cscc.typepad.com/responsiblesourcing/ , by Rachelle Jackson By now you’ve seen it: newspapers all over the world are carrying the headline about Gap’s link to bonded child labor in an India sweatshop. The U.K.’s Sunday Observer broke the...

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