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So you think you know your supply chain? - Kyna Intel, 2023-03-29T09:50:57+07:00

"For all the sophistication of today’s international supply chains, a grave and ugly problem lurks in their darkest corners. As this report details, forced ...

Soaring unemployment in Myanmar follows junta rollback of labor rights - Kyna Intel, 2022-04-27T13:14:44+07:00

"Sources say employers fire workers at will and impose brutal work conditions on those who stay on. [...] Those workers in the Shwepyithar Industrial Zone who ...

Social activism dominates the night at Fashion Awards 2022 - Kyna Intel, 2022-12-08T09:55:16+07:00

"“Fashion touches every country, continent and time zone. We need to use our power for good,” said Jodie Turner-Smith, who hosted the Fashion Awards here on ...

Social audit firms 'must be held to account' - Kyna Intel, 2021-09-10T00:37:12+07:00

"Social auditing companies should be subject to new mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence legislation, according to a new briefing from the ...

Social audit liability: Hard law strategies to redress weak social assurances - Kyna Intel, 2021-10-10T20:50:53+07:00

"The social audit industry has rightly come under increasing scrutiny for its role in sustaining tolerance of human rights abuse in company supply chains. It ...

Social auditing and ethical certification - Kyna Intel, 2022-09-02T12:16:23+07:00

"Persistent problems have been documented in the effectiveness of social auditing and ethical certification schemes when it comes to preventing, detecting and ...

Social audits no cure for retail supply chain labor abuse - Kyna Intel, 2022-11-16T10:01:10+07:00

"Social audits and certifications of suppliers are not enough to prevent and remedy labor rights abuses in global supply chains, Human Rights Watch said in a ...

Social audits, modern slavery — Covid shows apparel industry did not learn from Rana Plaza disaster - Kyna Intel, 2022-04-27T13:14:44+07:00

"The University of Aberdeen's Business School Professor Muhammad Azizul Islam, who has conducted research on apparel workers in Bangladesh, finds the ...

Social dialogues key to resolving disputes - Kyna Intel, 2021-12-07T18:32:47+07:00

"Social dialogues need to be launched in various industries to empower women and strengthen the country's trade unions, speakers said at a discussion ...

Social enterprise Assembled Threads taps into undiscovered migrant manufacturing skills - Kyna Intel, 2022-01-03T14:24:45+07:00

"Edwina Walsh was on a plane leaving Nepal when the idea first struck. She had been in the country to get beanies made at a fair trade factory that hired women ...