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Media
Controls don’t do the job
Press freedom: Fighting for the right to report
NGOs as watchdogs and intermediate
South Africa: roots of rape
Asian challenge
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Controls don’t do the job
Clean Clothes Campaign (ed.):
Looking for a quick fix – How weak social auditing is keeping workers in sweatshops.
http://www.cleanclothes.org/publications/quick_fix.htm
Social audits only make sense if they go along with a set of measures to ensure workers’ rights. Whoever wants to improve labour conditions at production sites, must cooperate with local organisations and support trade union activity. Systems of lodging complaints and mediating in cases of conflict are indispensable. These are results of research done on behalf of the Clean Clothes Campaign. Managers and auditors were interviewed, and so were 670 workers in Bangladesh, China, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan and Romania. According to the study, social auditing does not suffice to guarantee humane work places and fair remuneration, but has become big business in the global garments industry. (orb)
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