The workers expressed their interest in knowing what the indicators for monitoring were for social auditing companies that are carrying out monitoring. The workers considered it very important that monitors should consult with all the social actors who are working for the promotion of women's rights and especially those working with women workers. The women workers suggested that a mass publicity campaign should be organised stressing the importance of codes of conduct and monitoring and verification. One point that was emphasised was in relation to campaigns and international boycotts. Care must be taken with campaigns as they can result in factory closure and loss of employment for the workers.
International support is important but the true actors are the women and men workers.
Marina Rios from MAM, Sandra Ramos, from MEC, and MEC's press officer at the Regional Workshop on codes of conduct. It is a collective of feminist women. It was set up to provide a space for meeting, training and promoting organisation for the defence of women's human rights, particularly women workers in the export processing zones. In Mexico three workshops were carried out with 6 women workers who have their own sewing workshop which is sub contracted by a large company. For the majority of the women workers this was the first time they had been in a workshop.