Perspectives in Responsible Sourcing

Effective Corporate Compliance Programs

Download and listen to our latest podcast where Lara Blecher, Senior Research Associate for STR Responsible Sourcing (formerly CSCC) speaks with Carole Basri, President of the Corporate Lawyering Group LLC.  In the podcast, Carole shares her experiences and answers questions about the things corporate compliance programs should take into consideration and how to effectively implement these programs within an organization.

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Event Summary: 2008 Ethos Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil

As many of you know, the Ethos Conference is one of the largest CSR events in Latin America.  This year, STR Responsible Sourcing (formerly CSCC) was able to send one of our research associates, Rishi Arora, to the event to take in the activities and discourse.  We recorded an interview with Rishi where he talks about what is hot in the Latin American CSR world based on his time at the conference.  We now share this experience with you, in case you were not able to make to Sao Paulo yourself.

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Podcast with Michael Kobori (Levi Strauss & Co.) and Carrie George (CSCC)

The responsible sourcing world has been abuzz this past year with talk of increased collaboration among brands and their supply chain partners, NGOs, and other industry associations in the monitoring and remediation of “sweatshops”.  In the era of new media, CSCC has turned to podcasting to explore the issue of brand collaboration with Michael Kobori, Vice President of Supply Chain Social and Environmental Sustainability at Levi Strauss & Co., and Carrie George, Client Service Manager at CSCC.  The podcast is a frank and open dialogue on the benefits and challenges of increased collaboration in fighting exploitative labor conditions.

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Forced Laborers - Their plight and what can be done to help them

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Inspired by a Newsweek Magazine article on forced laborers in Malaysia, Rachelle Jackson, Director of Research and Development, and Paul Dinh, Research Associate, explore the conditions that many forced and migrant laborers face, and offer insight into the various initiatives happening globally to stop this exploitation.

CSCC's Inaugural Podcast

Podcasts are audio blog entries that you can download to your computer or portable media player.  Podcasting has become very popular among bloggers and news organizations and now CSCC is getting in the game, filling the void in the blogosphere for comprehensive audio commentary on responsible sourcing issues.

This first podcast features Rachelle Jackson, Director of Research and Development at CSCC, summarizing the highlights and biggest news items in the responsible sourcing world from 2007, and providing some insight into what to expect in 2008.  She discusses the GAP child labor scandal in India, the new labor law in China, as well as the high profile campaign against Uzbekistan cotton (she also briefly discusses a session on Uzbekistan cotton that is on the agenda of our upcoming conference: Download cscc_g3_conference_brochure_2608.pdf ).

We hope to one day be able to offer you a direct podcast download from iTunes, but in the meantime click the link below to download the podcast to your desktop and/or portable media player: Download cscc_podcast_1_2008feb07.wav.  We'd love to hear any feedback you may have about this podcast at comments@intlcompliance.com.