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Article

20 Jun 2013

Author:
Emma Jacobs, Financial Times [UK]

The supply chain inquisitor

“Rights are at the core of what a business must do,” [Rachel Wilshaw, ethical trade manager at Oxfam] says. “It should be embedded in business, not seen as an add-on.”...[Oxfam] wants to assist the private sector in enabling people to realise their rights and work their way out of poverty, as well as challenge commercial practices that threaten people’s hum­an rights. A study of labour rights in Unilev­er’s Vietnam operations led by Ms Wilshaw was published this year...Marcela Manubens, Unilever’s vice- president for social impact, says: “Ox­fam is ahead of the curve in understanding that campaigning alone is not responsible. You cannot just throw a bomb and walk away.” She adds that the study “shocked us a bit, it held up a mirror to us from a different angle...We thought we were doing great but Oxfam showed us that there were real issues here we must look at.”...[Also refers to Cafédirect, Primark (part of Associated British Foods), Mango]