ITGLWF/InditITGLWF/Inditex Professor of Ethical Fashion Doug Miller's lecture from last year's Maquila Solidarity Network's ethical fashion week is now available for download in PDF format. Entitled "Beauty & the Beast," the lecture looks at the back-story of environmental and human rights issues (the Beast) behind the fashion industry (Beauty).
TransFair USA is one of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States.
TransFair USA's Focus on Fair Trade Curriculum offers an accessible way to introduce students of all ages to the concept of global interdependence and citizenship, through an exploration of familiar foods produced outside the USA: chocolate, bananas and coffee.
Aren't workers happy to have jobs in apparel, toy and electronics factories and on plantations? After all, don't these companies provide lots of jobs, especially in developing countries?
In Codes Memo #22, MSN investigates whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting is measuring the right things, asking how stakeholders can assess whether a company's business practices bear any relation to its CSR principles and objectives.
For the past three years, a group of labor rights and human rights organizations in the United States have published the Shop with a Conscience Consumer Guide – a list of “sweatfree” options for the growing number of consumers who would like to purchase