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Name of Resource | The Fair Food Program / Fair Food Code of Conduct |
Type | Policy, Platform for co-operation/advocacy, Monitoring / Enforcement mechanism |
Country / jurisdiction | United States of America |
Organization | Coalition of Immokalee Workers |
Date of publishing | 2001 |
Description | The Fair Food Program emerged from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Campaign for Fair Food, a campaign to affirm the human rights of tomato workers and improve the conditions under which they labour. The work of the Fair Food Standards Council has produced a replicable, scalable model for expansion of the Fair Food Program beyond the Florida tomato industry. The Fair Food Program consists of several major elements, including: a wage increase supported by the “penny per pound” price premium participating buyers pay for their tomatoes; compliance with the human rights-based Code of Conduct, including zero tolerance for forced labour and sexual assault; worker-to-worker education sessions conducted by the CIW on the farms and on company time to insure workers understand their new rights and responsibilities; a worker-triggered complaint resolution mechanism leading to complaint investigation, corrective action plans, and, if necessary, suspension of a farm’s participating grower status. |
Availability | ENG: http://www.fairfoodstandards.org/resources/fair-food-code-of-conduct/ |
Name of Resource | The GoodElectronics Network |
Type | Platform for co-operation, Knowledge/information hub |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Good Electronics |
Date of publishing | January 2014 |
Description | The GoodElectronics Network brings together networks, organizations and individuals that are concerned about human rights and sustainability issues in the global electronics supply chain. Members include trade unions, grassroots organizations, campaigning and research organizations, academia and activists. GoodElectronics and its members are not-for-profit only. The programme of the GoodElectronics network aims for three results: civil society organizations, including trade unions, are informed, supported and capacitated to play their role as a countervailing power in the electronics sector in order to empower precarious workers and address corporate abuse, both on the local and international levels; strengthened industrial relations involving trade unions and electronics companies have been established on both global and national levels; meaningful engagement between civil society and electronics companies and other relevant actors along the global electronics supply chain has developed. |
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Name of Resource | The Nexus of Illegal Gold Mining and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains - Lessons from Latin America |
Type | Report/analysis |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | Verité |
Date of publishing | July 2016 |
Description | The paper provides analysis of the risk of labour trafficking linked to illegal gold mining in Latin America, drawing upon in-depth field research carried out by Verité in Peru in 2012¬-2013 and in Colombia in 2015, and desk research carried out across the Latin American region. |
Availability | ENG: http://www.verite.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Verite-Report-Illegal_Gold_Mining-2.pdf |