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Making sustainable supply chains core to business.
Last week Impactt attended an interesting event called ‘Putting market access into practice: Reaching the bottom billion through corporate supply and distribution chains.’ The event, organised by ODI, DFID and Business Action for Africa explored how supply and distribution chains can be harnessed to expand opportunities for the poor while delivering key business benefits. Speakers [...]
The International Commission of Jurists, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the legal promotion and protection of human rights and the rule of law, publish their findings on a 2 year study on Corporate Complicity and Legal Accountability for gross human rights abuses this week. The study looks at corporate ‘complicity’ in the actions of a [...]
GAP’s child labour expose of last week has focussed minds on the problem of subcontracting; when suppliers put some, or all, of the manufacturing out to a sub-supplier without the knowledge or consent of the customer. Yesterday’s Observer reported that GAP are looking at a twin approach to tackle both child labour and illicit subcontracting [...]
But don’t worry we have been very busy! Not least with delivering babies, doing countless ethical audits across the world, and learning something about the way consumers think about ethical trade. A consumer survey was published last week which found that many consumers do not believe fashion retailers’ claims on ethical sourcing. It also stated [...]
We are all waiting with bated breath to hear about the outcome of the shareholder resolution at the Tesco AGM today. The campaign group Action Aid have brought Gertruida Baartman, a fruit picker from South Africa, over to speak about her experiences at this years AGM.
Nike has in the past few days (May 31, 2007) released their Corporate Responsibility report. The section dealing with ‘Workers in Contract factories’ makes interesting reading. It starts by acknowledging that the 800,000 workers in their supply chain overshadow any other direct constituency; that 80% of these workers are women aged between 18 and 24 [...]