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Responsible Sourcing Network Helps Companies Combat Human Rights Abuses in Supply Chains

Corporate accountability NGO As You Sow recently launched the Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) in an effort to combat slavery and other human rights abuses in corporate supply chains. RSN provides a space for companies, investors, NGOs, and other stakeholders to share best practices and take coordinated action. RSN is presently working to end forced child labor in Uzbekistan's cotton industry, and addressing the conflict minerals trade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—where profits help fuel one of the world's bloodiest conflicts. Read more →

Posted: January 11, 2011 | Topics: Conflict Minerals, Consumer Products, Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, Information & Communications Technology, Supply Chain

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