Church Says Consumers Can Effect Globalization

Consumer concerns over how designer products are made can have an important effect on globalization, Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin told a conference this week that consumer concerns over how products are made can have an important impact on globalization.

"When consumers begin to tell us that they are not just concerned with the designer label on their sports shirt, but also the labor conditions within which it was made, then the business community will respond more rapidly" to fix those working conditions, the archbishop said. He added that the church has a role to play in educating and enlightening public opinion in the area of social responsibility and in creating "new forms of international cooperation to provide realistic, but robust, norms for worker protection"

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