The Responsible Business Summit USA 2012
Discover how to fully embed and integrate CSR in your organization. Learn how to collaborate with key stakeholders and establish competitive edge using proven CSR strategies. Hear best practice from GAP Inc, Timberland, Lockheed Martin, Life Technologies, Campbell Soup and many more.
Analysis: child labour – A grown-up approach
As the prevalence of child labour increases around the world, it is time companies rethought prevention strategies
The risk of child labour around the world is on the up. This is not only worrying, but frustrating, given the time and money that’s gone into combating it.
The worst performers are depressingly familiar. Burma, North Korea, Somalia and Sudan sit at the bottom of the rankings, confirming the causal link to civil conflict and political oppression. Poverty represents the other big causal factor. Hence, the overwhelming prevalence of sub-Saharan nations in the index’s lower ranks.
The implications for large corporations are not straightforward. Very few of the 215 million children whom the International Labour Organisation identifies as underage workers are directly employed by multinational companies. Technical employment requirements, automated production processes and close regulatory oversight all...
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Discover how to fully embed and integrate CSR in your organization. Learn how to collaborate with key stakeholders and establish competitive edge using proven CSR strategies. Hear best practice from GAP Inc, Timberland, Lockheed Martin, Life Technologies, Campbell Soup and many more.
