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Autor(a): Economic Times [India]
A US government notification on proposed procedural guidelines issued in October on imported goods made using child or enforced labour has finally acted as a wake-up call for India. The ministries of commerce, labour and women & child development...
- Empresas relacionadas: Gap
Empresas que brindan esperanza [Guatemala]
Autor(a): Gabriela Barrios, Prensa Libre [Guatemala]
...28 mujeres que se encuentran en la cárcel Santa Teresa han decidido dar un paso importante para que, cuando salgan, su vida sea distinta. Se trata del proyecto “Guatemalteca emprendedora, guatemalteca exitosa”, en el que las mujeres se capacitaron...
Autor(a): prepared for UN Special Representative John Ruggie with the support of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
This report outlines the nature of States Parties’ obligations vis-à-vis corporate activities under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as well as its Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child...
Autor(a): Sarah DiLorenzo, Associated Press
When Macy's decided to sell baskets made by Rwandan widows, the store was swayed in part by the prospect of contributing to a developing economy and in part by the women's tale of suffering during their country's 1994 genocide. But Macy's was clear:...
- Áreas detalladas: Genocide - an introduction Rwanda
- Empresas relacionadas: DaimlerChrysler (now Daimler) Federated Department Stores (now Macy's) Macy's Starbucks
Autor(a): Bloomberg, in Chinese Labor Watch
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. uses Chinese factories that deny workers overtime pay and maternity leave and pays them less than the local minimum wage, according to three reports released yesterday by labor monitoring groups... Lungcheong Toy factory [part of...
- También se encuentra en: China: Reports say factories supplying Wal-Mart employ child workers, refuse responsibility for worker injuries, violate wage laws - Wal-Mart says it aggressively monitors & corrects suppliers' labour problems
- Empresas relacionadas: Guangzhou Huasheng Lung Cheong International Mattel Walmart
Autor(a): Ching-Ching Ni, Los Angeles Times [USA]
Statistics are hard to come by, but in some estimates, as many as 10 million school-age children are doing their part to turn China into a low-cost manufacturing powerhouse...poverty and lopsided development have driven a disproportionate number of...
Autor(a): Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
...there are no exact figures on how many child workers have died at work [in Yemen], as many go unreported, activists believe that the numbers could be high...[Children] are vulnerable to various forms of hazardous equipment or toxic materials in the...
Autor(a): Clayton Collins, Christian Science Monitor [USA]
Companies usually don't rush into regions where bullets are still flying...But a few firms are wading into conflict zones - or newly postconflict zones - convinced that they can earn profits, ease the transition to peacetime, and seed more...
- Empresas relacionadas: De Beers (part of Anglo American) Eziba Home Depot IKEA Rapaport Group
Autor(a): Rachelle Jackson, director of research & development at CSCC (corporate social responsibility service provider), in Ethical Corporation
When examining supply chain labour standards, homework, or cottage industries, remain one of the great challenges for companies...[refers to Nike, B&Q (part of Kingfisher)]
- Empresas relacionadas: B&Q (part of Kingfisher) Kingfisher Nike