Levi Strauss & Co. is strongly committed to worker’s rights and environmental stewardship across the apparel supply chain. On the 20th anniversary of our groundbreaking Terms of Engagement, Levi Strauss & Co. is announcing a new commitment to require contract factories to help make employees’’ lives better by supporting programs for their workers.LS&Co. is working to move beyond a compliance model of “do no harm”” to supporting factory – based programs that will help empower workers to improve their lives. LS&Co. will develop new requirements for our key suppliers that align with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) . Among these will include: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, improving maternal and child health, combating HIV/AIDs, and other diseases, promoting gender equality and empowering women, and ensuring environmental sustainability.
As the United Nations marks its annual 16-day campaign against gender-based violence and the world continues to be shaken with the #MeToo movement, UNFPA – the UN's sexual and reproductive health agency – is shining the spotlight ...Read More
The European Union is currently negotiating a draft Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CS3D). By mid-2023, the three law-making institutions – the Council of the EU, the Parliament, and the European Commission – are expected to...Read More
This tool recommends ways for all businesses to incorporate children’s rights into their policies and codes of conduct, based on the Children’s Rights and Business Principles and reaching beyond the traditional focus areas of child labour and ...Read More
The handbook gives some basic information on international core labour standards (CLS), and looks at ways in which they can be incorporated into ADB activities.
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