Ergon's Stuart Bell highlights new initiatives to push workers' wages above legal minima

"Effective and credible ethical trade strategies can help generate not just more jobs at any cost, but better jobs, more stable jobs, with better wages, that will enable millions of poor and vulnerable people to lift themselves out of poverty."

"For the NHS, ethical sourcing should be just as much about protecting the people who make its equipment as it is about the patients who are treated with it."

"The beauty of a good operational or management control is that it multi-tasks, taking care of several risk sources at the same time."

Some key lessons from ETI's Decent Work Project on helping build constructive dialogue between workers and managers in China.

"More than one hundred thousand workers are killed every year at work in India. That's the equivalent of a Bhopal disaster every month." An interview with Stirling Smith.

ActionAid has published a report highlighting the payment of poverty wages, unreasonable hours and abuse of clothing workers in Bangladesh.

"Violence is no way to respond to legitimate workers' demands."

"I associated surgical instruments with the clean sterile environment of the operating theatre. But here they were being ground and filed by 10 year-old children working full-time in small open garages on the street." New guide launched to improve ethical standards in NHS purchasing.