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First Sentier publishes Modern Slavery Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... high level risks in the equity and fixed income investment teams in consumer discretionary - in particular retailers, apparel and technology; health care supplies, energy and construction; and the emerging markets debt team include "countries that are ...

Identifying potential risks of COVID-19 and modern slavery in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... organisations and trade unions spoke with The Sustainability Report regarding their concerns for employees in industries including apparel, agriculture, cleaning and security, both here in Australia and internationally. In the immediate response to the ...

Sexual harassment a potential investment, financial risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... everything in isolation, that's how you work together, because that's how you create economies of scale." Australian brands and apparel retailers have a role to play in influencing how processes are optimised, Chinnery said. "Part of the potential power ...

Baptist World Aid Australia rates fashion companies on human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
More than two thirds of apparel companies around the world can demonstrate tracing all final stage suppliers for human rights and environmental exposures, but only 18?% have traced input suppliers and 8% have traced all material suppliers, according ...

ACSI research outlines guidelines to assessing Modern Slavery risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... in some of those sectors that haven't seen themselves as having as big an exposure as they do." Davidson noted that the apparel and textile sector was not included in the report because ACSI has previously conducted research on that specific sector's ...

Woolworths facing shareholder resolution asking for human rights supply chain disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... stakeholders including trade unions, etc. Woolworths and Wesfarmers scored poorly in the report - they weren't assessed as apparel companies, but on their agriculture supply chain. There is internal asymmetry relating to different lines. Extractive companies ...

EY, UN Global Compact evaluate state of sustainable supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... chain leading to consumer and stakeholder awareness and demand, such as in sweat shops and safety black swan events in apparel; migrant and forced labour in food, and biodiversity impacts in paper and timber," Jeyaretnam said. "In other sectors there ...

CHRB launches human rights methodology, pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... pilot benchmark. The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark will focus on the largest companies in the agricultural products, apparel and extractives industries, and the results will be published in November 2016. CHRB has been two years in the development ...

Nordea joins Corporate Human Rights Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... benchmarked against those indicators. The companies will cover three industry sectors - food and beverage/agriculture, apparel, and extractives. Nordea is the largest asset manager in the Nordics with EUR184 billion in assets under management. Nordea ...

Wesfarmers publishes 2015 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... across all of our brands," Chaney said. "Coles, Target and Kmart are increasingly publishing the names and addresses of apparel companies that we source from. It's an involved process - we need to get [apparel factories'] permission to disclose those ...