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Are Standards helping or hurting workers rights?

17th Sep 2008 by Alex Briggs

Two workers rights experts have held an insightful debate into Supply Chain standards and human rights for workers. Jeff Ballinger, academic, former union and NGO activist is clearly against standards as the end all solution for factory abuses, while Doug Cahn, consultant and formerly of Reebok, is in favour of standards and audits in bringing about change in supply chain factories around the globe.
This Ethical Corporation article features the full debate.

Use the ‘Assure View’ report findings to benchmark your CSR activities

18th Aug 2008

You can use the findings from, ‘Assure View’ – The CSR Assurance Statement Report, to look through the many available assurance providers and to also assess the full picture by looking into the raw data.

The latest draft of the AA1000 Assurance Standard (2008) is now online for public consultation

1st Aug 2008

This final period of consultation runs until September 12th after which the Technical Committee will again review all comments and finalise the Standard for the global launch on October 24th.

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