Tag: United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights

The enforcement imperative at the heart of Worker-driven Social Responsibility…

[caption id="attachment_23953" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A Fair Food Standards Council auditor interviews a worker at Participating Grower's farm earlier this year.[/caption] Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) -- the emerging paradigm for the protection of fundamental human rights in corporate supply chains born of the uniquely successful experience of the Fair Food Program -- is founded on two distinct and equally important philosophical pillars: worker >> Read More

Fair Food Program takes United Nations Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva by storm…

[caption id="attachment_22982" align="aligncenter" width="597"] From left to right, Cheryl Queen (Vice President for Communications of Compass Group), Greg Asbed (CIW), and Miguel Rios (Agricultural Enforcement Coordinator, Southeast Region, US Department of Labor) address the United Nations Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva on the structure and function of the CIW's Fair Food Program and the collaboration among workers, >> Read More