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 is a summary of the report: Assessing understandings of effective supply chain governance , a Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (the Modern Slavery PEC) research project, funded by the UK Artsand Humanities Research Cou...Read More
The World Bank Environmental and Social Framework sets out the World Bank’s commitment to sustainable development, through a Bank Policy and a set of Environmental and Social Standards that are designed to support Borrowers’ projects, with the ai...Read More
The Responsible Business Alliance Code of Conduct is a set of standards on social, envi- ronmental and ethical issues in the electronics industry supply chain. The standards set out in the Code of Conduct reference international norms and standards i...Read More
Adopted in Athens in 2006 to engage the worldwide business community to participate in anti-trafficking efforts. Seven principles outline action plans for business to contribute to the eradication of human trafficking, including child labour. ...Read More
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