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.
The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) assessed three sectors in 2022: food and agricultural products (57 companies), ICT manufacturing (43 companies) and automotive manufacturing (29 companies). The revised CHRB methodology devotes more at...Read More
For any business, its workforce is its most valuable asset. A sound worker-management relationship is key to the success of any enterprise. PS2 asks that companies treat their workers fairly, provide safe and healthy working conditions, avoid the u...Read More
The Fairmined Standard for Gold and Associated Precious Metals has been developed to support sustainable development of artisanal and small-scale mining communities. The standard includes requirements for artisanal and small-scale mining organiza...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
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