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“About 80 percent of the active ingredients in medicines now come from offshore, particularly China and India, and we don’t have a governance system. We don’t have a regulatory system able to ensure that that production is safe. We don’t have a system to ensure that human rights, basic dignity, are ensured.”
— Auret van HeerdenAuret van Heerden: Making global labor fair
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“The contract from a major multinational brand to a supplier in India or China has much more persuasive value than the local labor law, the local environmental regulations, the local human rights standards.”
— Auret van HeerdenAuret van Heerden: Making global labor fair
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“The people who employ us treat us like we are less than human, like we don’t exist. Please ask them to treat us like human beings.”
— Auret van Heerden speaking on behalf of Indian sweatshop workersAuret van Heerden: Making global labor fair
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“None of us want to be accessories to a human-rights abuse in a global supply chain. But right now, most of the companies involved in these supply chains don't have any way of assuring us that nobody had to sacrifice their rights to bring us our favorite brand-name product.”
— Auret van HeerdenAuret van Heerden: Making global labor fair
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