Project Category: Leather

Explore the latest research on employment and working conditions in the Ambur leather cluster in Tamil Nadu, India. Discover the results of a study focused on wage levels, overtime pay, gender pay gap, working hours, and access to social security entitlements. Learn about the challenges faced by workers in the leather sector and the recommendations made by the authors for better transparency, living wages, and workers’ rights.

Cividep India in collaboration with SOMO, BLF,  and NOW Communities presents Corona Chronicles, a short paper shredding to light the consequences of the crisis on leather workers in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

A study reviewing the effectiveness of tools and approaches that set out to increase transparency in apparel and footwear supply chains, published by Cividep India and Homeworkers Worldwide. Further, we also developed a toolkit based on best practices, gathered from 16 of the foremost practitioners, including leading apparel & footwear retailers and civil society organizations, who have implemented due diligence and transparency mechanisms in homeworker chains.