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.
This Modern Slavery Response & Remedy Framework (the Framework) has been designed in collaboration with Minderoo Foundation’s Walk Free initiative and the Human Rights Resources and Energy Collaborative (HRREC). HRREC is a group of Australian ...Read More
Forced labor is a feature, not a bug, in today’s global economic system. Forced labor spans the globe. It involves multinational corporations. It is found in special economic zones—and war zones. And it is in everyone’s backyard. Globally, 27....Read More
Every year, more than 100,000 people are detained for migration control purposes in the European Union. Immigration detention places individuals’ lives on hold, as people do not know when, or if, they will ever be released. It has a severe impa...Read More
The Ethical Framework for Cross Border Labor Recruitment offers a set of specific operational practices (“Standards of Ethical Practice”) for recruitment firms that operate across borders. These practices are reinforced by a Verification and Cer...Read More
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