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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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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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.
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Cividep India’s Pradeepan Ravi gives inputs in this news story on the alarming rate of post-pandemic layoffs happening in Tamil Nadu’s leather industry, and how workers, especially women, are struggling to cope.
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In collaboration with the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, we contributed to a blog miniseries on the plight of invisible homeworkers in global supply chains. In a set of two articles, we discuss the importance of worker collectivization and the criticality of more rigorous due diligence by brands for enabling improvements in complex supply chains.
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