A customized online tool developed by OECD Watch, for potential complainants to better understand how OECD guidelines may be applicable for individual instances of corporate misconduct and guidance on how to go ahead with each case.
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A film showcasing the other side of ‘affordable’ mobile phones – by documenting the lives of young workers who make them, facing appalling conditions, low wages, unpaid overtime hours, and much more.
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Cividep India’s address at the OECD Global Forum on Responsible Business Conduct 2013, on the need for more corporate accountability with respect to businesses in the ICT sector in India. We spoke on the risks and adverse impacts to workers that companies need to pay attention to. These relate to OHS, increasing contractualization of labour, and lack of freedom of association and grievance mechanisms for workers.
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In a press release, global justice and workers’ rights groups condemn TCO Development, the Swedish certification organization – for awarding its first “Sustainability Certification” to Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Smartphone, in spite of its dismal record with w.r.t ensuring occupational health and safety of its factory workers in South Korea, and other nations.
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Fibre2Fashion.com features our collaborative study on the provision and quality of childcare and creche facilities in Bangalore’s garment factories and the results of a consequent multi-stakeholder consultation with the state government.
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