"Transforming supply chains forresponsible business", Sep 2015

[Main trends discussed include:

• The new corporate human rights benchmark – The Modern Slavery Act 2015: what the Act requires, how some firms are already responding & the importance of collaboration. 
• Fashion brands and living wages: the issue of low wages, need for a living wage & work of the Clean Clothes Campaign.
• Do national plans on business and human rights work? The US government’s consultation plan, The Council of European Union’s urge for national “CSR strategies” & the sharing of best practice.
• Fair pay supply chain challenges: the positive work of IKEA, concerns of extra costs addressed & the benefits of benchmarking.
• Who is being targeted?

- Electronics sector - conflict minerals
- McDonalds & Walmart - worker conditions
- Agriculture, mining & construction- child labour
- FIFA - construction worker conditions

• An interview with Brent Wilson, global director of workplace rights & human rights at Coca-Cola: how Coca-Cola drives positive human rights practices across their complex organisation.]

[Also refers to adidas, Budweiser, Gazprom and Visa]