Aren’t We All Storytellers?
Good storytelling can make our work more enjoyable, writes Cividep founder Gopinath Parakuni
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Area of Work: Advocacy
When Will Leather Brands Pay Living Wages?
Pradeepan Ravi explains why brands shouldn’t ignore international standards on wages.
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Let’s #BreakTheBias in the textile industry!
As a member of the Sustainable Textile Initiative: Together for Change (STITCH) consortium, Cividep India along with our partners, launches our International Women’s Day 2022 campaign. STITCH commits to reducing gender-based disadvantages; addressing the stigma, stereotypes, prejudice, and violence workers face; and facilitating women’s participation in social dialogue
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A new living wage benchmark for tea workers
We discuss the concept of a workers’ living wage in the context of tea plantations in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, and compare existing living wage calculations in the light of learnings from a social sustainability study conducted jointly by Cividep India and Finnwatch.
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ILO features Cividep’s advocacy for homeworkers with global brand
On completion of 25 years of the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Homework Convention (177), which calls for protection and equal rights to all homeworkers, the ILO have published a comprehensive report about homeworking. Included within this report is a case study of the work that Cividep undertook in collaboration with Homeworkers Worldwide and Pentland Brands.
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