# Center for Business and Human Rights Research Director Dorothée Baumann-Pauly outlines steps companies can take to ensure their factory audits are more effective

1 School News March 3, 2020 ![Quartz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_038218.gif?itok=JIQPnzXd)>

Excerpt from [Quartz](https://qz.com/1811305/nike-apple-linked-to-forced-uighur-labor-in-china-report-says/) -- “'Clearly the auditing methodology is flawed,' says Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, research director at the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University’s Stern school. She describes it as a top-down system where companies check in on supplier factories in search of violations but often miss the systemic causes leading factories to skirt the rules in the first place."

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