Leather Homeworkers Face Many Health Risks
Problems linked to lack of recognition of workers, writes Kohila Senbagam
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When Will Leather Brands Pay Living Wages?
Pradeepan Ravi explains why brands shouldn’t ignore international standards on wages.
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Let’s #BreakTheBias in the textile industry!
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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Cividep India’s rapid response relief project for COVID-affected garment workers
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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Home-based work in the time of Covid-19 for women in Ambur
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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