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Human rights due diligence in India’s leather industry: A long way to go

Posted by Pradeepan Ravi | Dec 3, 2020

A study by Cividep India, Homeworkers Worldwide, and Ethical Trading Initiative identified adverse labour rights risks and impacts in factories and informal supply chains of leather goods production clusters in India. Companies need to conduct more comprehensive due diligence, involving civil society organizations, in industries such as the export-oriented leather sector in India, with complex and largely unmapped supply chains.

Home-based work in the time of Covid-19 for women in Ambur

Posted by Cividep India | Oct 20, 2020

COVID-19 has exacerbated the precarity of working conditions for the leather home workers of Tamil Nadu- with less work, delayed payments, and further scope of exploitation. On International Homeworkers Day 2020, they got together to release a charter of basic demands including formal recognition, minimum wages, and social security. We examine the impacts of COVID on their lives and livelihoods.

Remembering Jane Tate, who stood with the most vulnerable workers

Posted by Cividep India | May 22, 2019

Cividep India reflects on the indelible work of the late Jane Tate, a founding member of Home Workers Worldwide (HWW), for advancing the cause of home-workers all over the world, and the past opportunities we’ve had in working and learning from her.

#Whomademyclothes: Social media initiatives and the cause of garment workers

Posted by Cividep India | May 20, 2019

Cividep’s Gopinath Parakuni shares his thoughts in a Times of India story on recent social media initiatives to promote ‘ethical’ fashion and how effective small-scale efforts like these may be in bringing about wider structural change in the industry.

Inaugural UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights

Posted by Cividep India | Apr 1, 2019

Cividep India participates in a panel discussion on ‘Labour standards beyond the factory walls’, at the Inaugural UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights organized by UNDP and the UN working group on Business and Human Rights.

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Human rights due diligence in India’s leather industry: A long way to go

Home-based work in the time of Covid-19 for women in Ambur

Remembering Jane Tate, who stood with the most vulnerable workers

#Whomademyclothes: Social media initiatives and the cause of garment workers

Inaugural UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights