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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With APPI’s support, Cividep launched a relief project for alleviating some of the distress that garment workers have faced due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Workers whose factories had shut down or were employed for only a few days in a month, either as piece-rate workers or regular workers, were allocated cash transfers. We document our approach, the results achieved, and learnings from the period of extreme distress faces by workers.
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Deepika Rao of Cividep India talks to the Institute for Human Rights and Business in this podcast on the living and working conditions of migrant workers in Bangalore’s garment industry, the numerous ways in which they are denied their rights and entitlements due to their vulnerabilities as outsiders in an alien city.
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The #WhoCares? campaign, run by FEMNET, is aimed at European consumers and asks Who Cares for the children of seamstresses in India, for maternity rights and childcare, and companies’ due diligence towards their social responsibilities. Cividep, in partnership with FEMNET, has had a long-term engagement with research and documentation of the conditions of childcare and maternity rights in garment factories in Bangalore as well as capacity building with regards to their improvement.
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A study by Cividep India on occupational health hazards faced by garment worker women finds mentioned in this Indian Express article on the invisible majority fuelling India’s urban revolution – women who’re increasingly migrating to cities for work.
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