Published 05-04-04
Submitted by International Center for Corporate Accountability
The International Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc. (“ICCA”) is a not-for-profit watchdog organization dedicated to raising the standards set by multinational corporations for governing worker conditions at their affiliated manufacturing facilities and ensuring that the environmental impact of these factories is within the limits of sustainable development. The New York-based ICCA assists companies, such as Mattel, in devising codes of conduct for their manufacturing facilities worldwide, and monitors compliance with these comprehensive principles while providing an unprecedented body of research on policies and procedures, strategies and standards that will assist large corporations, journalists, scholars and policymakers in the rapidly changing field of workers’ human rights, sustainable development and discrimination based on religion, race, ethnic orientation and gender. The ICCA is governed by scholars and representatives of public interest groups with extensive experience in developing countries where they have worked on issues pertaining to the environment, children, poverty and working conditions. In addition to field “audits” of corporate facilities, a major component of the ICCA’s work consists of the dissemination of the most recent thinking and best practices in the field of corporate ethics through conferences, publications and a Web site, www.ICCA-corporateaccountability.org.