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Building the Right Model for Business in China

Like it or not, for most major shoe manufacturers, China is the place to be. Pretty much whatever you need to make shoes--from factories with trained and available labor, to...

Read More July 14, 2010
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...

Read More June 22, 2009
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...

Read More June 22, 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?...

Read More August 5, 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...

Read More May 30, 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...

Read More 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...

Read More 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...

Read More 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...

Read More May 31, 2009