How can people come together to resist human rights abuses in companies supply chains?

People & Planet’s new By Rights campaign will be launched at Shared Planet. Students who are sick of seeing abuses of communities and the environment by massive companies like Coke, Fruit of the Loom and RBS are going to revolutionise the way their universities do business. As we call for universities to ensure people’s human rights throughout their supply chains, our panel discuss ways in which people can come together to resist human rights abuses by corporations.

Rod Palmquist

Rod is the International Campaigns Coordinator for the US student movement United Students Against Sweatshops. He has recently been the coordinator of the international campaign against Fruit of the Loom that People & Planet groups have joined.

Reyna Martinez

Reyna is Acting Secretary of the union federation CGT fighting to protect the Honduran factory at the heart of People & Planet’s Fruit of the Loom campaign.

Sam Maher

Sam is the Solidarity and Outreach Coordinator for Labour Behind the Label, which supports garment workers’ efforts worldwide to improve their working conditions.

Jimmy Brannigan

Jimmy is the Project Coordinator for Promoting Poverty Aware Procurement on Campus, an innovative project that aims to use the massive buying power of universities and colleges to help prevent poverty and aid development.