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Dimensional Fund Advisors launches Global Sustainability Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... or reduce exposure" to companies connected to or derive revenue from practices such as tobacco, gambling, alcohol, child labour, cluster munitions, pornography and factory farming, the asset manager said. Dimensional's methodology is augmented by its ...

Baptist World Aid: labour concerns in electronics' supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
Forced labour, child labour and exploitation are "significant problems" in the supply chain of the electronics industry, according to the 2016 Electronics Industry Trends report published by Baptist World Aid and Not For Sale. In their second report ...

Oncologist leads drive for tobacco stock divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... advertising or moving towards plain packaging. Further risks include litigation risk, or social risks such as the use of child labour in harvesting tobacco, King noted. "For the health-related funds, the decision has been partly based on the fact that ...

Westpac reports progress on sustainability targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... companies that have contributed to illegal logging, forced evictions, inadequate compensation, food shortages and child labour," Oxfam said. Toohill said Westpac is reviewing the allegations in the report and noted that work of NGOs like Oxfam shows ...

Kmart, Pacific Brands increase Bangladesh disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... for engagement with retailers in both Bangladesh and in Cambodia, but other issues for supply chain risk include child labour, the risks of sandblasting and paying employees a living wage, Carlsson-Sweeny said. He noted that currently, the Bangladeshi ...

Companies lag on implementing UN Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... policy, 78% reported equal opportunity, 77% reported freedom to form and join trade unions and 66% had a policy against child labour, only 28% had labour supply chain arrangements and 25% participate in industry initiatives. "While corporate leaders ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... only 38% of those 34 companies have disclosed their supply chain LHR policy and only 30% of companies disclose their child labour and forced labour policies. ACSI found that imports from some LDCs have increased in significant percentages between 2006 ...

The hidden movement: how responsible brands strike back

STEPHEN HALE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... scanning product barcodes to see if its manufacture (or indeed manufacturer) has employed such modern day evils as child labour, palm oil, trans fats or dirty coal... Grant O'Brien's observations are absolutely right. Point of sale will need to deliver ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... time respectively across all sectors. The least widely protected labour and human rights standards are those for child labour and forced labour, achieving average disclosure of 14% and 13% respectively. Many companies did not formally extend their policies ...

Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... country, but actually there are very different conceptions between the developed world and developing countries. While child labour standard are emerging now, there are still some different standards about children working in family businesses, those ...