Two yarn spinning mills in Pakistan underwent independent assessments of the YESS: Yarn Ethically & Sustainably Sourced Standards.
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Last month, Uzbekistan departed from the company of North Korea, South Sudan, and Turkmenistan in their human trafficking rankings when the U.S. Department of State released its 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP), which provides a tool for foreign governments to address modern slavery.
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Turkmenistan may represent only 2% of the world’s cotton exports, but the rampant human rights violations in their cotton production demand our attention. Much of the country’s cotton is produced using a system of state-sponsored forced labor. This isn’t widely known, but Turkmenistan can’t fly under the radar and deliver goods produced with numerous human rights violations.
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For more than a century now we have relied on fossil fuel-powered vehicles with costly consequences for our planet. But one mineral is now allowing for a technological revolution and this mineral is cobalt. The development of cobalt-based lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries brings a new lease on life to the automobile industry. But it is not the only beneficiary. From the aerospace industry to the medical sector, cobalt has become an integral part of major innovations that will shape our future.
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The data proves that without regulatory threat, corporations won’t act to secure basic rights for those mining the ore that allows us to send messages from our smart phones, to fly in airplanes, or to wear gold jewelry.
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