"What's New?" – archive

ETI Library indexes

This page lists significant documents added to the library (and occasionally other areas of the site) over time. They are ordered by when they were added to the site, which may differ significantly from the date of original publication of the document. For the full list of all library documents see indexes by date, where they are organised instead by date of first publication (or of the relevant event).

2006

December

• Statement: Suspension of Levi Strauss & Co. from ETI membership
• Press letter: Response to Guardian Article 14 December ‘They sweat, you shop’
• Activities: Building capacity substantially updated
• Press release - ‘Joined up’ approach needed in Bangladesh
• Ethical trade: practical resources & publications - list of key ETI resources, Dec 2006 [PDF, 151kb]
  (Bookmarking note: shortcut to Resource list - latest version) [PDF]
• ETI Corporate Annual Reporting Guidelines 2006 (incl Reportbook & Self-Assessment tool)

November

• "ETI Update" - Issue 32, November 2006
• Reports on the ETI impact assessment - additions:
  • Summary report now available in 5 languages - english, french, spanish, vietnamese, simplified chinese
• Annual Review 2005/2006 The power of partnership:
  • web version of AR 2005/2006
  • download full print version of AR2005/06 [PDF, 744kb]
  • download buyers' poster accompanying AR2005/6 [PDF, 437kb]
  • download audited annual accounts 2005/06 [PDF, 74kb]

October

• ETI workbook 2nd edition: Ethical trade... a comprehensive guide for companies
• Reports on the ETI impact assessment:
  • The ETI code of labour practice: Do workers really benefit? - full IDS reports, details and downloads
  • ETI Press Release - Ten years of ethical trade brings benefits to workers – but more needed
  • A preliminary response by the Ethical Trading Initiative to IDS’ study
  • ETI Press Release - Global brands not solely responsible for workers’ rights

September

• Ethical trade: practical resources & publications - list of key ETI resources, Aug 2006 [PDF, 151kb]

August

• The ETI code of labour practice - Do workers really benefit? Findings and recommendations from the ETI impact assessment. Advance notice of publication & launch event.
• ETI web site - documentos en español (new index page)
• "ETI Update" - Issue 31, August 2006
  + ETI Resources - August 2006 [PDF 151kb]

July

• ETI Homeworker guidelines: recommendations for working with homeworkers
• Job Opportunity - Project Manager (note: applications deadline has passed)
• Job Opportunity - Deputy Director (note: applications deadline has passed)
• Capacity Building: Supervisor Training

June

• Job Opportunity - Admin Assistant (note: applications deadline has passed)
• Press Release - Bangladesh Garment Protests a “Wake Up Call”
• Press Release - Ethical Trading Initiative to Lead Urgent Fact-Finding Mission to Bangladesh
• Job Opportunity - JO-IN Project Manager (Turkey) (note: applications deadline has passed)

May

• Press Release - Primark joins Ethical Trading Initiative
• Suppliers' poster accompanying AR2004/05 - SPANISH [PDF, 142kb]
• Suppliers' poster accompanying AR2004/05 - SIMPL CHINESE [PDF, 163kb]
• Statement on Situation at Fortune Garments, Cambodia
• Job Opportunity - Country Representative (China) (note: applications deadline has passed)
• Statement on Somerfield resignation from ETI

April

• (Briefing Paper 6 - Summary paper - simplified chinese)
• List of ETI members updated to include links to their websites
• "ETI Update" - Issue 30, April 2006

March

• ETI training programme - updated Mod1 & Mod2 flyers to download
• Job - Membership & Training Development Manager (note: applications deadline has passed)
• Press Release - Food industry must act now to prepare for gangmaster licensing
• ETI statement on the launch of Marks & Spencers’ Fairtrade cotton range

February

• ETI Documento de instrucciones No.6 - Comercio ético: dándole forma a una nueva agenda (español - translation of Briefing paper No.6).
• Implementación de las prácticas laborales en las fincas florícolas de Kenia (español - translation of Feb 2005 report).
• Press Release - ETI/DFID: First Day at Ethical Trading School for UK Firms
• Press bulletin - Food industry united on second anniversary of Morecambe Bay

January

• Country resources section - updates and additional countries added to "Additional resources".
• "ETI Update" - Issue 29, January 2006

2005

December

• Press bulletin - Food industry alarmed at proposals to water down Gangmaster Act
• ETI training programme - practical courses in ethical trade - details, dates and flyers to download
• "Driving Change" - ETI Annual Report 2004-2005 & accompanying Suppliers' Poster
  [web version now completed].

November

• ETI briefing papers - Shaping a new agenda: Managing supply chain labour conditions (the set is now complete!):
  1. Quick fix or lasting solution? Dealing responsibly with typical non-compliances
  2. Finding common ground: Working with trade unions in supplier countries
  3. Managing compliance with labour codes at supplier level: A more sustainable way of improving workers' conditions?
  4. Moving production: Stalling the race to the bottom
  5. Bridging the gap between commercial and ethical trade agendas: Pioneering approaches to purchasing practices
  6. Ethical Trade: shaping a new agenda ("summary paper").
• ETI Annual General Meeting 2005 - programme

October

• Press Release: New agenda for ethical trade to help bring trade justice for workers
• Media information sheets - "ETI Facts" & "ETI Achievements"
• Job - Administative Assistant (note: applications deadline has passed)
• Press Release: Zara owners Inditex join the Ethical Trading Initiative
• Additions to Country Resources: generic: additional resources:
  • China
  • Vietnam.
• New library section:
  ETI in the media - launched with a number of recent articles, audio downloads etc. including:
  • Garment imports: the right response (Ethical Corporation, Sept 2005) [PDF, 207kb].

September

• ETI Smallholder Guidelines: recommendations for working with smallholders; also:
  • Directrices de la ETI para minifundistas: Recomendaciones para trabajar con minifundistas [en español]
  • Mwongozo wa ETI kwa wakulima wadogo: mapendekezo ya kufanya kazi na wakulima wadogo [kiswahili]
  • Press Release: UK supermarkets back initiative to help break cycle of poverty for poor farm workers (29 Sept)
  • Press Release: ETI Director calls for industry-wide action to help poor farm workers reap benefits of global trade (22 Sept)
• Addition to Activities section (along with numerous minor updates throughout the section):
  ETI Activities: Working with Others: Supplier Ethical Date Exchange (Sedex).

August

• UK launch: ETI Smallholder Guidelines - advance flyer.

July

• "Shaping a new agenda" - ETI biennial conference 2005 - multimedia downloads now available.
• Job - Jo-In International Project Manager
• ETI Corporate Annual Reporting Guidelines 2005 (incl Self-Assessment Tool)

June

• Press Release: Ethical Trading Initiative welcomes key output of Dhaka conference
• Job - Local Project Co-ordinator - China OHS Project (note: applications deadline has passed)
• Press Release: Dhaka conference: ETI Chair calls for joint action to protect poorest workers
• Job - Project Manager - Maternity Cover (note: applications deadline has passed)
• About ETI section: Simplified Chinese version of ETI brochure [PDF, 307kb]
  & ETI Quick Facts [PDF, 26kb]
• ETI Activities section: MFA Forum page added, with links to downloads and to the MFA Forum website.

May

• ETI Strategy 2005-08
• Roundtable report: Freedom of association & collective bargaining (March 2005)
• Briefing: Freedom of association & collective bargaining (March 2005)
• Policy and procedure to identify and deal with any potential conflicts of interest arising between the role of the Board Directors of ETI and other independent activities the Directors may carry out.
• Press Release: ETI Biennial Conference 2005: Violent agreement is a key outcome says ETI director
• Job - Head of Projects - Maternity Cover (note: applications deadline has passed)
• Press release: ETI Biennial Conference 2005: Power brokers of ethical trade gather in London

April

• Press release: ETI Biennial Conference 2005: Nike to speak
• Press release: ETI Biennial Conference 2005: Shaping a new agenda for ethical trade
• Final Report on ETI Child Labour Project 2001-2004
• Press release: ETI welcomes launch of Gangmasters Licensing Authority, April 2005.

February

• Temporary Labour Working Group Update: Progress on Implementing the Code of Practice.
• Addressing labour practices on Kenyan flower farms - Report of ETI involvement 2002-2004
• "Shaping a new agenda" - ETI biennial conference 2005 - information and downloads, and online booking.

January

• Annual Report 2003/2004 "Putting Ethics to Work" (simplified layout web version)
• One Day Conference in Guangzhou, China, May 2004:
  • China Conference programme and presentation downloads (English)
  • China Conference programme and presentation downloads (Simplified Chinese)

2004

December

• Event Report - Public Seminar: Multi-Fibre Agreement Phase-Out: Who gains? Who loses?
• Job - Project Co-ordinator - Turkey
  Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights
  (note: applications deadline has passed)
• New Country Information section launched - A-Z availability table of generic resources on some 200 countries, and comparative information about strengths, costs and availability.

November

• Annual Report 2003/2004 "Putting Ethics to Work" (downloads)
• Corporate annual reporting guidelines & template year end 2004
• Temporary Labour Working Group ("Gangmasters"):
  • Press Release: Industry unites to fight exploitation of workers in UK food and agriculture;
  • Summary of Temporary Labour Working Group Activities in past two years;
  • Report: "A licence to operate: New measures to tackle exploitation of temporary workers in the UK agricultural industry" and Code of practice for labour providers to agriculture and the fresh produce trade

October

• Report of ETI Christmas Crackers work - part of the Homeworker Project
• Job - Project Manager - Maternity Cover
  (note: applications deadline has passed)

September

• Sri Lanka Worker Education Leaflet [PDF, 4.6MB]

August

• Roundtable Report - Purchasing practices;
  also [Roundtable Report - Purchasing practices, PDF version, 100kb]
• Report on 2002 SRI seminar now available online (web page and PDF)

July

June

• Training Partnership with ETI - Call for Proposals
  (note: submissions deadline has passed)
• ETI Company Membership Application Form:
  • ETI Membership Application Form [PDF, 24kb]
  • ETI Membership Application Form [MS Word, 57kb]
• Member Roundtable Advance Flyer - Purchasing Practices: ‘marrying the commercial with the ethical’
• Consultation Report for the NGO Caucus:
  • Voices from the South and Eastern Europe (EN) [PDF 85kb]
  • Voces del Sur y de Europa del Este (ES) [PDF 113kb]
• Code Violation case study:
  • Draft Report: Addressing labour rights violations at Tarrant, Ajalpan, Mexico using the Ethical Trading Initiative’s complaints procedure [PDF 98kb]
  • Informe Borrador: Atención a las violaciones de los derechos laborales en Tarrant Ajalpan, México mediante el procedimiento de quejas de la Iniciativa de Comercio Ético [PDF 97kb] (annex 5 added June 26)

May

• Collective Risk Assessment Project: Report and Toolkit
• Job - Project Co-ordinator, Child Labour Project, Tamil Nadu
  (note: applications deadline has passed)

April

• Advance notice of seminar:
  ETI Risk Assessment Project - Methodology and lessons (PDF)
  (more detailed flyer will be posted in due course)

March

• Job - Project Co-ordinator, Homeworkers Project, Delhi
  (note: applications deadline has passed)
• Roundtable Report - Prison Labour;
  also [Roundtable Report - Prison Labour, PDF version, 82kb]
• South Africa Wine Industry project report (about/order);
  (also South Africa Wine Industry project report pre-publication flyer [PDF, 41kb])

February

• UK Agriculture ("Gangmaster") Project (PDFs downloadable from main "Gangmaster" project page)
  • Gangmaster (Licencing) Bill: full text of the Bill & explanatory notes
  • worker leaflets (EN, IT, PT)

January

(Major additions only - there were other additions to the 2002 and 2003 archives, see date index pages)

• ETI Roundtable Summaries now made public for the first time
• ETI Corporate Annual Reporting Guidelines and Template 2003 [PDF, 160kb]
• ETI Working Group to address labour conditions for seasonal and foreign labour in the UK Food Industry ("Gangmaster" project):
  • "Gangmaster" Draft Code of Practice (Nov 2003)
    [PDF, 304kb]
  • "Gangmaster" Project Briefing and Update (Sept 2003)
    [PDF, 30kb]
• Towards an ETI Training Programme (Exec Summary)
• Case Study: The ETI Child Labour Project (2001-2002) (first published May 2002)

2003

December (major additions only)

• ETI Annual Report 2002/2003 - "Harnessing Difference"
  (PDF download only)
• ETI Conference Report 2003 - "Key Challenges in Ethical Trade"