A public institute in Argentina is offering "certificates of quality" to firms that do not use slave labour in the textile industry, where 80 percent of workers operate in the informal sector of the economy. Besides cracking down on sweatshops, the idea is to favour companies that provide their employees with decent working conditions, social security coverage and labour benefits when it comes to large purchases by the state, of military uniforms, for example. The National Institute of Industrial Technology’s (INTI) voluntary certification programme...was launched as a result of the outcry triggered by a fire that broke out in a clandestine textile factory in Buenos Aires...killing two Bolivian women and four children. [refers to Graciela Naum, Montagne]