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Independent Monitoring of Corporations: Verite’

Posted By Sanford Lewis (Corporate Watchdog Media) On January 30, 2006 @ 7:29 pm In ++New Publications,+english,+NGOs,podcast,Sea Change. Making Connections for Sustainability | Comments Disabled

Dan Viederman, executive director of Verite', a nonprofit that monitors factories globally for compliance with human and labor rights codes. Discussion touches on Verité's work with the Gap on its groundbreaking Social Responsibility Report [2] that disclosed for the first time labor rights violations; Verité's new report on exploitation of foreign contract laborers in Asia and the Middle East; the challenges of maintaining independence from corporate clients.



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[1] Listen: http://www.archive.org/download/SanfordLewisandBillBaue_3/cwr8.mp3

[2] Social Responsibility Report: http://www.gapinc.com/public/SocialResponsibility/sr_report.shtml