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NHS PASA publish ‘Ethical Procurement for Health’ to develop ethical trade for health supplies
Impactt has been working with the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) and the Ethical Trading Initiative to develop guidance for NHS procurers to support the development of ethical trade policies for their individual trusts and organisations. The Guidance, entitled ‘Ethical Procurement for Health’, was launched for consultation yesterday (8th December), with the aim of [...]
Views from our Asia Pacific Network: Inflation and Wages in Vietnam
As part of Impactt’s launch of our Asia Pacific Network we are issuing a series of viewpoints identifying the most pressing labour standards issues in our network countries. Our first viewpoint comes from Juliet Edington our associate in Vietnam and focuses on the impacts of high inflation on workers’ livelihoods. This year the issue of wages [...]
In response to last night’s BBC Panorama exposing child labour in Primark’s supply chain, the Guardian asks “Is this the end for Primark?” We think reports of Primark’s imminent demise are greatly exaggerated. There certainly didn’t seem to be any lull in business when Impactt went to see the protest organized by War on Want [...]
Following the news stories last week and speculation in the Ethical Trading community, the BBC is set to show its investigation into the ethical standards of Primark’s supply chain this Monday at 9pm. A potentially controversial trailer is available on YouTube: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The footage [...]
Primark has again attracted the attention of the ethical trading community today after the company’s announcement that it is severing ties with 3 suppliers because of child labour found in their supply chains. Information on the labour standards of some suppliers, gained during the filming of the BBC’s Panorama series, was passed on to the company, [...]
In last Sunday’s Observer Magazine’s Special Issue on The Ethical Awards 2008 there was a revealing and well written article on Child Labour in the Egyptian cotton industry.There are an estimated 2.7 million children working in Egypt, the majority, up to 1 million young workers, are in working in agriculture. According to the article, children [...]
At last, a sensible and nuanced programme on the challenges of ethical trade in the garment industry. Radio 4′s ‘In Business‘ programme ‘On the rack’ (broadcast on 12th June, repeated 15th June) is worth a second hearing – a 30-minute whistle-stop tour setting out just how real the problems are, and just how challenging they [...]
World Day Against Child Labour – getting working children back to school, one-by-one
Tomorrow (12th June) is the World Day Against Child Labour, and hundreds of organisations around the world are marking the day with activities to raise awareness that Education is the right response against child labour. Impactt’s report, Progress not Perfection highlighted the increasing incidence of child labour. Over the last couple of years, we have found [...]
Last night we saw the final instalment of Blood Sweat and T-shirts, the BBC3 reality TV show about the garment industry in India. We have been fairly critical of the show in previous weeks since it has seemed to focus on the Brit’s shock at their living conditions, but last night’s episode managed to present [...]
Radiohead have teamed up with MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) to produce a music video to raise awareness of child labour and human trafficking. The song ‘All I Need’ from the ‘In Rainbows‘ album is used as a backing track on a video featuring two stories, shown simultaneously; one of a boy from the [...]