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Ethical Trade: The Business Case – two short films for retailers and suppliers
The ETI has just produced two really useful new films that set out the business case for ethical trade, for suppliers and retailers. We all know that pictures, preferably moving pictures, are crucial in getting people to relate to workers and their lives and we welcome these new films as a useful resource for [More…]
On 23rd October, nearly 450 brands, retailers, NGOs, trade unions and representatives of government gathered together to celebrate the first decade of the Ethical Trading Initiative and to discuss the key challenges that lie ahead. The conference room was filled with celebratory air; but strongly evident was the collective feeling that while we have [More…]
Homeworking in the Indian garment industry: what are the issues and how can homeworkers’ lives be improved
Following the Primark news stories and Panorama documentary a couple of weeks ago about the undeclared outsourcing and child labour in the Indian supply chains of Primark, we thought we would write a blog about homeworking and the challenges it represents, particularly in the Indian garment industry.
As we noted before homeworking is endemic in the [More…]
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 [More…]