Dispatches: Businesses Need to Walk the Walk

Yet, Human Rights Watch’s research has shown that all too often, companies fail to identify or tackle abuses in their supply chains. We have found that companies have sourced garments and footwear fromCambodian and Bangladeshi factories where labor rights abuses were rampant; tobacco from farms in the United States where child laborers risk nicotine poisoning; and gold fromGhana’s illegal artisanal mines, where children often process gold with toxic mercury and mine collapses regularly kill people. A key problem is that companies don’t go far enough down the supply chain to identify these problems.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/01/22/dispatches-businesses-need-walk-walk