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Research report

Working in Marks and Spencer’s Food and Footwear Supply Chains

14/01/2021

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

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M&S asked Oxfam to identify human rights and worker wellbeing issues in their supply chains as part of a collaborative research project. Oxfam interviewed 390 workers across food manufacturing sites in the UK and footwear factories in India over a six-month period. The investigation focused on gender equality, worker voice and in-work poverty. The research […]

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Research report

Labour Rights in Vietnam: Unilever’s progress and systemic challenges

04/07/2016

2 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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In 2011, Oxfam published a study into the gap between Unilever’s high-level policies on labour rights and the reality on the ground for workers in Vietnam. Oxfam has reviewed the progress made since 2011 and found that the company’s overall commitment to respecting human and labour rights has been strengthened as a result of effective […]

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Issue briefing

Business and the Millennium Development Goals: Your call to action

01/05/2008

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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The MDGs were adopted in the context of increasing global insecurity, and poverty was perceived as a key factor fuelling it. The role of business, albeit important, was seen as no more than complementary to the obligation of the international community to meet the Goals. Consequently, the private sector was called upon primarily to ‘make […]

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Briefing paper

Critique of the European Commission’s Action Plan for African, Caribbean, and Pacific Countries Affected by EU Sugar Reform

01/06/2005

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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In July 2004, the European Commission (EC) released its proposals for reform of the EU sugar regime. This document acknowledged that ‘the proposal would certainly imply adjustments in the sugar sector of the ACP [African, Caribbean, and Pacific] countries and India’ – countries which until now have had preferential and guaranteed access to high prices […]

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Briefing paper

Making Trade Work for Development in 2006: What the EU should do

05/05/2005

2 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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If real progress is to be made in 2005 on reducing poverty through trade, the EU must look towards its longer-term enlightened interests and rein in its search for short-term commercial advantage. To contribute to global prosperity and security, including Europe’s, it should start actively backing developing countries’ concerns at the G8, the WTO, and […]

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Briefing paper

A Sweeter Future? The potential for EU sugar reform to contribute to poverty reduction in Southern Africa

22/11/2004

2 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Some countries in southern Africa, among the poorest in the world, have long-term potential to build sugar industries that contribute to poverty reduction. Their ability to fulfil this potential depends critically on the outcome of EU sugar reforms, currently under discussion, which will determine their access to the lucrative EU sugar market. Existing EU reform […]

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Briefing paper

The Rural Poverty Trap: Why agricultural trade rules need to change and what UNCTAD XI could do about it

11/06/2004

4 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Many developing countries are stagnating or growing poorer, including their farmers, who comprise two-thirds of the world’s poor. Many of the reasons for this lie in systems of agricultural trade, including the rules of the WTO, the unfair trade policies of rich countries, and falling prices on international commodity markets. Oxfam recommends policy reforms to […]

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Briefing paper

Milking the CAP: How Europe’s dairy regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

05/12/2002

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French

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European citizens are supporting the dairy industry to the tune of ‚¬16 billion a year. This is equivalent to more than $2 per cow per day – half the world’s people live on less than this amount. EU surpluses of milk and milk products are dumped on world markets using costly export subsidies, which destroy […]

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Briefing paper

Europe’s Double Standards: How the EU should reform its trade policies with the developing world

01/04/2002

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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EU double standards on trade policy are a disgrace. The EU forces Third World countries to open their markets at breakneck speed, while maintaining barriers to Third World exports, particularly farm products and textiles. The EU does further damage to livelihoods in the developing world by dumping highly-subsidised agricultural surpluses with which small farmers cannot […]

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Briefing paper

Is the WTO Serious About Reducing World Poverty? The Development Agenda for Doha

01/10/2001

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This briefing outlines the issues which the WTO should address if it is to make an effective contribution to poverty reduction in developing countries. The paper, prepared in advance of the Ministerial Conference in Doha, argues that 1) Uruguay Round outcomes were unfair to poor countries, 2) Ministers should therefore commit the WTO to rebalance […]

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