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Can international attention improve factory conditions?

With consumers becoming increasingly concerned about how their goods are produced, international companies are faced with managing conditions — as well as productivity — all along their supply chains. In many cases, that means finding ways to oversee factories in China.

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June 22, 2009
Ghana: Country Escapes Cocoa Boycott

Accra — The International Cocoa Verification Board (ICVB) has endorsed Ghana's reports on the state of child labour which said there was no evidence of trafficked children and bonded children working on cocoa farms in Ghana.

Earlier in the year, the ICVB unconditionally accepted the...

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June 8, 2009
Hendricks: Employers bear some of the blame in human trafficking case

Notice how all that hot anti-immigration rhetoric seems to have cooled lately? Not entirely, of course. Lou Dobbs is still frothing on CNN. And one of Lou’s frequent guests, our very own Kris Kobach, raised the topic this week in announcing his bid for Kansas secretary of state.

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May 30, 2009
Long-time labor advocate Mike Musuraca joins Verité Board

Verité is very pleased to announce that Mike Musuraca has joined our Board of Directors.  Mike is a long-time leader in the effort to link improvements in labor rights with investment performance, first as Designated Trustee on the Investment and Proxy Committees to the New York City...

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May 30, 2009
Corporate Watchdog Radio on Child Labor in Cocoa Supply Chain

Corporate Watchdog Host Bill Baue interviews Verité Senior Policy Advisor Mil Niepold on Verité’s involvement in the work of the International Cocoa Verification Board (ICVB): How to End Child Labor on West African Cocoa Farms. Listen to the interview...

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May 31, 2009
Fugitive Denim: a Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade

The pants of Rachel Louise Snyder's subtitle are indigo-blue denim jeans, and the idea is to follow production from the Azerbaijani cotton farm to the Manhattan concept design store. That makes her book sound like a documentary of a process and far more linear than it really is, as none of the...

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May 31, 2009
Talk of the Nation: Made in a Sweatshop? Clues for Consumers

Christmas ornaments, crucifixes and lingerie are just a few of the most recent items to be exposed as potential products of sweatshop labor. What's a holiday shopper to do? Guests discuss how to determine whether an item was manufactured in a sweatshop, and how much you can trust "Made in...

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May 31, 2009
Morals vs profits, a tug of war for business in China

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beyond being good corporate citizens, do international firms operating in China have a moral duty to advance democracy and human rights?

Executives roll their eyes at the question: the typical answer is that companies know they must set an example in upholding labor...

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June 22, 2009