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Cornell University ILR School DigitalCommons@ILR Corporate Codes of Conduct February 2006 Human Rights and Brand Accountability: How Multinationals Can Promote Labor Rights Michael Posner Human Rig hts First Follow th s and additional works at : http://d gitalcommons. /codes Thank you for downloading an article from D gitalCommons@ILR . Support th s valuable resource today ! Th s Article s brought to you for free and open access by D gitalCommons@ILR . It has been accepted for inclusion in Corporate Codes of Conduct by an author zed admin strator of D gitalCommons@ILR . For more information, please contact hlmd gital@. Human Rights and Brand Accountability: How Multinationals Can Promote Labor Rights Abstract Testimony before the Congressional Human R ghts Caucus of Michael Posner, Human R ghts First President, on current trends among multinational corporations towards greater outsourcing and the need to develop a set of “rules of the road” for supply chain operations, espec ally relating to the r ghts of factory workers. Keywords accountab lity, brand, business, catherwood, chain, codes, conduct, cornell, corporate, economic, factory, free, global, global zation, global sation, human, lr, industr al, init ative, international, joint, labor, labour, labour, leg slation, l brary, multinational, outsourcing, portal, project, relations, r ghts, school, supply, sweatshop, trade, university, work, workers, workplace Th s article s ava lable at D gitalCommons@ILR : http://d gitalcommons. /codes/12 TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL POSNER PRESIDENT, HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST BEFORE THE CONGRESSIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAUCUS “HUMAN RIGHTS AND BRAND ACCOUNTABILITY: HOW MULTINATIONALS CAN PROMOTE LABOR RIGHTS” W