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

• Footnotes
• Appendix 1 - Delegate list (next)
• Appendix 2 - Conference programme
• Further information - About ETI, the Base Code and ETI Conferences

Footnotes 

1. The Dewhirst Group is a garment manufacturer based in the UK, and is a member of ETI  [context]
2. Impactt Ltd is a UK-based consultancy company specialising in ethical supply chain management.  [context]
3. International Resources for Fairer Trade (IRFT) aims to address poverty and unemployment in India through encouraging and monitoring socially responsible behaviour amongst Indian businesses, and supporting the development of community-based enterprises.  [context]
4. Homeworkers Worldwide is the UK centre for HomeNet, the international solidarity network of homebased workers' organisations and others who support the rights of homebased workers to decent working and living conditions. Homeworkers Worldwide is a member of ETI.  [context]
5. The China Labour Bulletin (CLB), based in Hong Kong, is a monthly bulletin published in both Chinese and English and addresses labour issues and trade union rights in China. CLB also runs an on-line resource centre for Chinese workers.  [context]
6. The Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (HKCIC), part of the Hong Kong Christian Council, was set up in response to widespread suffering of workers in Hong Kong in the 1960s and aims to empower workers to fight for their own rights. HKCIC serves as a watchdog for government policies, provides direct services to workers and their families, and promotes an independent trade union movement.  [context]
7. Women Working Worldwide, a member of ETI, is a UK-based organisation which supports the struggles of women workers in the global economy through information exchange and international networking.  [context]
8. The China Women Workers' Network, a Hong Kong based NGO, aims to improve the lives of Chinese working women. Its members include university professors, school teachers, social workers, feminist activists and labour organisers.  [context]
9. Social Accountability International (SAI) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the development, implementation and oversight of voluntary verifiable social accountability standards. SAI works to improve workplaces through the expansion and further development of the international workplace standard, SA8000, and the associated SA8000 verification system.  [context]
10. Premier Foods, a member of ETI, is a UK-based supplier of hot beverages, canned products, preserves and pickles.  [context]
11. The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is a network of national campaigns based in 10 different European countries, and aims to improve working conditions in the worldwide garment and sportswear industry. The CCCs in each country are coalitions of consumer organisations, trade unions, human rights and women rights organisations, researchers, solidarity groups and activists.  [context]
12. The Peace Trust is an NGO based in Tamil Nadu, India, and works to improve labour and environmental standards and to promote the elimination of child labour.  [context]
13. The Kalape Api Solidarity Network was established by a worker in the Free Trade Zone in Sri Lanka, after her fiancé was murdered in the 1989 insurgency. It was established to demand justice for zone workers and those who had “disappeared”, and engages in legal advice, support for workers' campaigns, and awareness-raising. [context]