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NEWSLETTER 14, JULY 2001
What's Going on With Codes of Conduct?
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Our Canadian friends from the Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
started circulating a "Codes Update" memo at the end
of last year. This periodic memo is circulated in Spanish to groups
in Latin America in an effort to share information on developments
and resources circulating in English about codes of conduct and
monitoring. In response to a number of requests, the MSN has also
started sharing the English version. These very useful memos are
circulated via the internet and e-mail, and describe recent developments
and resources relating to codes, monitoring, and verification,
also providing clear summaries of the debates surrounding these
issues. To date the focus has mainly been on Canada, the United
States, and Central America but there has also been reporting
on Asia and European developments.
During the CCC's Barcelona conference (see report in this newsletter)
the need for more inter-regional sharing and debate especially
on these issues was strongly felt, given the transnational nature
of many of the company-dominated iniatives, the increasingly transnational
way in which many of the Asian major production companies operate,
and the different impacts that initiatives can have depending
on the regional context.
Therefore the CCC urges all of who wish to intensively follow
this area of work to contact the MSN (e-mail: info@maquilasolidarity.org)
and subscribe to this memo and also to send in whatever information
you have on new developments, new resources, comments, criticisms,
and suggestions.
To give you an idea of what the update covers, here's a list
of some of the topics covered in the last editions: a special
report on the Fair Labor Association (FLA), the Indonesia Global
Alliance Report (reprinted in this edition of the CCC newsletter),
Verité's Report on Kuk Dong, WRAP (a useful Who's Who)
and again on the FLA (especially the accreditation of Guatemalan
NGO COVERCO).
Back issues can be found at the MSN website <http://www.maquilasolidarity.org>,
or the CCC website < http://www.cleanclothes.org/codes.htm>,
ordered via e-mail, or for those without e-mail access by fax
via the CCC.
