Social Accountability International's Newsletter - February 2012

EILEEN FISHER on Preventing Human Trafficking
Interview with EILEEN FISHER's Luna Lee: commitment with SA8000® enables compliance to California Transparency in Supply Chain Act

Magen Tzedek Certification Offers Ethical Assurance
After 3 years of development with SAI & SAAS, the Magen Tzedek Certification program is 'open for business' for kosher food manufacturers

RAGS Project: Invitation to Garment Suppliers in India
Limited seats available - Opportunity to increase social performance for sustainability and enhance business opportunities with UK brands

Building the Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge for Social Audits
SAI releases its updated and enhanced SA8000® Advanced Auditor Training Course, featuring an interactive online training component and full day simulated audit

Meet SAI's New Intern: Sushmita Patel
Based in Bangalore, Ms. Patel will be supporting SAI's RAGS Project

Cotton made in Africa Update: February 2012
SAI is the US Representative for the Aid by Trade Foundation's Cotton made in Africa initiative. Starting with this issue, we will include a monthly round up of articles from this Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) initiative.

• Mozambique Becomes CmiA's 6th Project Country
  CmiA welcomes a new project country in Southeast Africa: 75,000 smallholder cotton farmers in Mozambique will join and participate in the initiative. Now, over 420,000 African smallholder farmers are part of this initiative.

• Baroness Lola Young to Be Ambassador For The Aid by Trade Foundation
  Parliamentarian advocates sustainable fashion made of African cotton 

• OTTO Austria supports adult education program for cotton farmers in Burkina Faso
  Working in the fields and learning to read and write 

• Designer Julia Starp creates new line with Cotton Made in Africa
  Young design talent designs sustainable collection for OTTO

  Highlights & Announcements

• Register for SAI's March Webinar on Social Fingerprint^®

• SAI at the UN Human Rights Working Group Meeting in Geneva

• 'Results in 100 Days' Rapid Results Institute Presentation by Nadim Matta (Video)

• Tata Steel Receives Award from CII-ITC in India

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