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Blog: Are Consumers Done with Fast Fashion?

Elisa Niemtzow, Associate Director, Consumer Products

Both data and recent citizen activism suggest that consumers may finally recognize their role in sustainable fashion—and may be willing to pay the price for it. Read more →

Posted: June 4, 2013 | Topics: Consumer Products, Labor Rights, Sustainable Consumption, Women & Sustainability

Blog: Labor Protection: What Can Bangladesh Learn from China?

Jason Ho, Manager, Advisory Services & CTI

In its 30-year path to industrialization, China has made great progress in protecting labor rights by strengthening public policy; integrating worker-protection systems into factories; increasing collaboration among western buyers, local NGOs, and suppliers; and empowering workers. Read more →

Posted: June 3, 2013 | Topics: Consumer Products, Human Rights, Labor Rights, Supply Chain

BSR Insight Article: The Other Women’s Movement: Factory Workers in the Developing World

Racheal Meiers (née Yeager), Director, HERproject

Note: This is part of a series of BSR articles on the tragedy in Bangladesh that will look at root causes, challenges, and how to prevent it from happening again. Read more 

Posted: May 29, 2013 | Topics: Consumer Products, Economic Development, Labor Rights, Supply Chain, Women & Sustainability

Blog: Lessons from Rana Plaza: Shocked, But Not Surprised

Aron Cramer, President and CEO

When now-President and CEO Aron Cramer arrived at BSR in 1995, the situation faced by workers in Bangladesh’s apparel industry was much the same as it is today. It’s time for systemic change. Read more →

Posted: May 28, 2013 | Topics: Collaboration, Consumer Products, Human Rights, Labor Rights, Supply Chain, Women & Sustainability

BSR Insight Article: The Middle East’s ‘Latent’ Crisis—and What It Means for CSR

Guy Morgan, Director, Advisory Services

At a recent breakfast event in our Paris office, BSR had the privilege of hearing from Hugo Micheron, a Paris-based economist who specializes in the Middle East. I caught up with Micheron after the event to get his take on where the Middle East is going, and what solutions exist to deal with what he has dubbed “the latent crisis in the Gulf.” Read more 

Posted: May 7, 2013 | Topics: Economic Development, Energy, Labor Rights

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