Supply Chains
Conference Recording, (Nov 7, 2017)
Conference Recording, (Nov 7, 2017)
Conference Recording, (Nov 7, 2017)
Conference Recording, (Nov 7, 2017)
Conference Recording, (Nov 7, 2017)
Conference Recording, (Nov 7, 2017)
Conference Recording, (Nov 7, 2017)
Angeli Mehta, (Oct 23, 2017)
Leading firms have committed to source the garment fibre from sustainable forests, but are paying less attention to widespread environmental damage from toxic chemicals used in its production. We look at greener alternatives
Rebecca Ley, (Oct 23, 2017)
IKEA Group is helping to tackle poverty and empower women by sourcing from a network of 30,000 artisans
Rebecca Ley, (Oct 20, 2017)
Fashion Revolution and apps like Not My Style and Project Just are harnessing the power of socially aware consumers to press for better conditions for garment workers
Nadine Hawa, (Oct 20, 2017)
We look at the technology available to help fashion brands identify social and environmental risks deep in their supply chains
Nadine Hawa, (Oct 20, 2017)
Fashion brands’ continuing failure to reveal their Bangladesh suppliers is impeding progress to prevent another tragedy, say human rights campaigners. But C&A Foundation aims to use crowdsourcing to digitally map the entire Bangladesh garment sector
Terry Slavin, (Oct 19, 2017)
In this guest blog, Karen Deignan of Net-Works interviews Yun Hui Hong of eBay Korea to find out how she created CarePlus, a specialist store on its auction platform that gives users access to a world of useful and innovative products, including the first Braille watch
Phil Bloomer, (Oct 16, 2017)
Leadership by the world’s richest companies is crucial to ending slave-like conditions in supply chains, argues Phil Bloomer of the Business and Human Rights Resources Centre. But as a report published today finds, progress by most FTSE 100 companies has been disappointing
Jacqueline Joudo Larsen and Michaelle De Cock, (Oct 13, 2017)
Jacqueline Joudo Larsen of Walk Free Foundation and the ILO's Michaelle De Cock describe how they pulled together the first definitive data set on the 40 million people enslaved in the global economy
Anonymous, (Oct 12, 2017)
In this guest blog, Karen Deignan of Net-Works interviews Frédérique Rathle to find out how Danone Water France worked with start-up Lemon Tri to create Lemonaide, which employs previously long-term unemployed to increase low recovery rates of PET bottles
Vicky Grinnell-Wright with Sarah Rozenthuler, (Oct 10, 2017)
Anxiety about giving colleagues negative feedback is one reason more than half of employees get no regular feedback at all. Vicky Grinnell-Wright of A Blueprint for Better Business and psychologist Sarah Rozenthuler offer tips for delivering constructive criticism
Terry Slavin, (Sep 27, 2017)
Nigel Sizer of Rainforest Alliance tells Ethical Corporation editor Terry Slavin how the upcoming union with the Dutch certifier will boost the new organisation’s ability to protect biodiversity and farmers’ livelihoods
Rebecca Ley, (Sep 26, 2017)
Dr Shamir Ghumra, (Sep 25, 2017)
A new model developed with Loughborough University gives companies eight pathways to achieving best practice in addressing slavery in their complex supply chains, says Dr Shamir Ghumra of BRE