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October 4, 2024
To allow for 2025 Chinese New Year celebrations, the Ethical Supply Chain Program will instruct our accredited firms to not conduct audits or Progress Visits between January 13th through to February 9th, 2025 (2 weeks before and after Chinese New Year).
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September 2, 2024
In partnership with Think HUGE Business and Investment Council (HUGE) and Invest Guatemala we invite interested members to explore 10 carefully curated supplier profiles from Guatemala. These profiles showcase potential partners who are committed to ethical labor practices and sustainability.
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August 28, 2024
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) will host two training sessions this September. The first will be held on September 5th in Hanoi, Vietnam, and the second, on September 11th in Shenzhen, China.
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August 20, 2024
Updates to Connect are now live, enjoy enhanced search filters and an interactive supplier map enhancing transparency.
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August 13, 2024
The Ethical Supply Chain Program has announced its collaboration with Open Supply Hub, whose mission is to make supply chain data open, accessible and trusted through its worldwide open data platform.
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August 6, 2024
We have just published our Communication of Engagement for 2022-2024, reaffirming our commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).
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August 5, 2024
Our WeChat Account is available to all factory management and app users. To find our account, scan the QR code or search for our user ID: 'ESCP_official'.
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July 10, 2024
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June 11, 2024
We have just published our first combined Worker Well-Being Impact Report. Highlighting the impacts from our Gender Equality, Family-Friendly Factory and Worker Helpline initiatives, as well as our plans for the future.
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May 28, 2024
Our General Manger, Anita Lo, shared insights on building ethical and sustainable supply chains with business leaders at TÜV Rheinland's 2024 Eco-Innovate Forum.
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April 22, 2024
The partnership will support the licensing industry in achieving its ESG objectives.
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March 13, 2024
London, UK, March 13 2024: Today, Parliament approved its position on revamped EU rules on toy safety with 603 votes in favour, 5 against and 15 abstentions. The text responds to a number of new challenges, mainly stemming from digital toys and online shopping, and converts the existing directive into a directly applicable regulation.
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March 13, 2024
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February 29, 2024
Hong Kong SAR, February 29, 2024: Today, the Ethical Supply Chain Program releases the first impact report for the Family-Friendly Factory program.
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February 15, 2024
The global non-profit is recognized as a leading expert in social compliance and labor standards, widely known for its robust Supplier Certification Program, alongside its Social Impact Assessment, Environmental Assessment, supplier capability building and worker wellbeing initiatives.
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December 20, 2023
Hong Kong SAR, December 20, 2023: Today, the ICTI Ethical Toy Program releases the first impact report for the Gender Equality program. The Gender Equality program was developed in response to the needs of manufacturing workers. Initial program development was funded by program member, Mattel. In 2022, the program was piloted at 12 factories in mainland China.
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October 31, 2023
Hong Kong SAR, October 31, 2023: Today, the ICTI Ethical Toy Program releases the impact report for its 2023 Family-Friendly Spaces Program, the multi-beneficial social initiative designed to improve the lives of manufacturing workers while producing measurable business benefits for manufacturing businesses and their partners. The report outlines the impacts and achievements created by the program, in its eighth year of operation.
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October 27, 2023
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October 18, 2023
In order to allow time for Chinese New Year 2024 celebrations, the Ethical Toy Program will instruct our accredited firms to not conduct audits and Progress Visits from 29th Jan to 25th Feb 2024. (2 weeks prior to and 2 weeks after Chinese New Year).
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October 4, 2023
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September 25, 2023
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August 1, 2023
Ethical Supply Chain Program 高兴宣布,我们现已启用微信公众号,以加强与中国工厂的沟通及其参与度。微信是中国最受欢迎的社交媒体,于全球拥有超过 9.38 亿活跃用户。
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June 1, 2023
This article is taken from a larger piece written by the Responsible Investor, read the full article here.
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May 23, 2023
Blog, 23rd May 2023, Hong Kong & London
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May 4, 2023
We are delighted to announce that this summer we are operating more FFS than ever before at 18 factories which will accommodate 691 children, allowing 788 parents to be reunited with their children for the summer.
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May 2, 2023
This paper shares the findings of a joint worker survey conducted from October 2021 – March 2023 in labor-intensive manufacturing facilities in exporting countries. The project was a collaboration of six nonprofit social compliance organizations. Workers surveyed worked primarily in Bangladesh, Vietnam, India, Italy, and Turkey. The industries represented include electronics, apparel, toys, textiles, and food & beverages