Ethical Trading Initiative Biennial Conference Report 2003

Key challenges in ethical trade: Report on the ETI Biennial Conference 2003

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Cover About the report
Introduction from the Chair (next)		*
Glossary and abbreviations
Chapter 1	About the conference and this report
Chapter 2	Key themes from the conference: an overview
Chapter 3	Building local multi-stakeholder code initiatives: the example of WIETA
Chapter 4	Providing workers with confidential complaints mechanisms
Chapter 5	Linking wages, overtime and productivity
Chapter 6	The challenge of code implementation in supply chains that include homeworkers and/or smallholders
Chapter 7	Improving companies' performance on labour issues in China
Chapter 8	Worker education
Chapter 9	Purchasing practices: what impact on labour conditions?
Chapter 10	Women workers: are current practices enough to address discrimination at the workplace?
Chapter 11	What role for the private sector in preventing, identifying and remedying child labour?
Chapter 12	Are codes making a difference to workers?
Footnotes		*
Appendix 1	Delegate list
Appendix 2	Conference programme
Further information		*
*Notes to PDF copy: Intro includes Contents Page etc. Footnotes are to be found in the chapters in which they are referred to 'Further information' included in PDF of Cover/About Report

Introduction from the Chair

I am delighted to introduce Key challenges in ethical trade – the report of our biennial conference held in London in May this year. This report aims to communicate the key issues and debates that arose at the conference to all those with an interest in ethical trade, whether or not they were able to take part. I believe that the report will be of interest to a wide audience, since the issues it covers make up a core agenda for the future of ethical trade and bring together perspectives from a wide range of stakeholders.

We were privileged to have 320 participants from 25 countries, including over sixty speakers. The strength of the conference and this report is that it brings together the wealth of practical experiences of these participants in monitoring and improving labour conditions in different sectors and countries. I would like to offer my sincere thanks to all those who joined us in May. Without their contributions, the conference would not have been possible.

Last but not least, I would like to thank Alexandra Cole-Hamilton for preparing the first draft of this report.

Alan Roberts
CHAIR, ETI
NOVEMBER 2003

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Introduction from the Chair