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Social audits of clothing factories in developing countries are failing to detect excessive and forced overtime, abusive treatment of workers and violations of freedom of association, says a report by the Clean Clothes Campaign, a coalition of trade unions and pressure groups, to be published today. Read More

The truth behind the chocolate is anything but sweet. On the Ivory Coast of Africa, the origin of nearly half of the world's cocoa, hundreds of thousands of children work or are enslaved on cocoa farms. With poverty running rampant and average cocoa revenues ranging from $30-$108 per household member per year, producers have no choice but to utilize child labor for dangerous farming tasks. Some children, seeking to help their poor families, even end up as slaves on cocoa farms far from home. Slavery drags on and we are paying the slaveholder's wages. Read More

In 1996, Darius Mehri, a wide-eyed young American engineer, went to Japan to work for Toyota's production system. What he found was an abusive environment where the company controlled every movement - inside and outside work - of its employees. Read More

A group of female employees on Monday filed a $1.4 billion discrimination suit Monday against Germany's Dresdner Bank AG, claiming women are denied equal pay and promotions at the investment bank.The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, claims that women aren't allowed to advance to senior levels Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the bank's securities unit. About 1% of women who work in its Capital Markets Division are managing directors, compared with 15% of their 1,700 male counterparts, according to the complaint, which is seeking class-action status. Read More

Berlin's European Film Market became the backdrop for yet another verbal battle between Wal-Mart and its filmmaker nemesis Robert Greenwald on Tuesday. The Greenwald-directed film "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" made for hot sales but heated words at the market. Read More