A delegation of retailers, academics and specialists gathered in Birmingham to discuss ways in which to increase transparency within the supply chain industry. Business leaders from...
Fashion giants have come under fire from campaign groups for not paying compensation to Rana Plaza victims. After the Rana Plaza factory collapsed in April, killing...
A joint risk briefing by membership organisation Sedex and labour standards NGO Verité claims that fire safety risks are “persistent” across industry sectors and geographies –...
A Bangladeshi union leader has arrived in London ahead of the city’s fashion week to demand a living wage for the workers of factories like the...
Climate change could lead to a greener Greenland by the end of the century, scientists have said. As temperatures in the Arctic rise, plant life in...
Sir Philip Green, CEO of Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop, Burton and BHS, is yet to sign an agreement to secure safe working conditions for workers...
Modern supply chains are highly complex, multi-tiered networks that consist of continuously evolving relationships involving many thousands of individual suppliers around the world. Globalisation and shifting...
This film, by membership organisation Sedex, introduces the key concepts at the heart of modern responsible sourcing, charting it’s evolution from a niche activity into the...
Membership organisation Sedex, which supports responsible supply chains, has commissioned six films exploring key risks and opportunities in responsible sourcing. Some of the problems faced by...
A UN fund set up to help developing countries fight the causes and effects of climate change could be ready to launch in 2014, it has...
Almost 70% of people buying clothes would agree to pay a bit more to have a product made by workers with decent wages and working conditions,...
The collapse of the Rana Plaza on the 24th April in Bangladesh has once again focused attention on poor working conditions in the factories that supply...
International development minister Alan Duncan has visited survivors of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, and announced that the UK will work with the overseas manufacturing...
A former child worker and a factory fire survivor will join Walmart employees on strike at the retailer’s annual general meeting (AGM), in an effort to...
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) recently picked out six sectors, and the ‘greening’ of which can ensure long-term prosperity for developing countries: agriculture, fisheries, forests, manufacturing, renewable...