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Article

24 Sep 2009

Author:
Martinne Geller, Reuters

Fight against human trafficking seeks to enlist firms

...Julia Ormond, founder and president of the Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking, said her organization was seeking to team up with three companies willing to examine their supply chains for any abuses and to share the resulting knowledge widely...Sophie Gasperment, chief executive of The Body Shop International [part of L'Oréal], said her company... had embraced a social conscience as a core philosophy and that it had helped its business....At an annual philanthropic meeting organized by former U.S. President Bill Clinton [the Clinton Global Initiative], Gasperment said the Body Shop will start issuing "progress cards" that assess how well countries tackle child sex trafficking. U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis pledged that her agency will work with companies that want to root out child and forced labor from their supply chains...