I am a changed person
Stories Of 3 Women Workers From Cividep’s First Annual Report Show Enduring Ability To Fight Back
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Topic: Corporate Accountability
What’s In An Award?
A Lot If You Go By How Cividep Has Been Inspired After The Esther Busser Prize
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ILO features Cividep’s advocacy for homeworkers with global brand
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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Human rights due diligence in India’s leather industry: A long way to go
A study by Cividep India, Homeworkers Worldwide, and Ethical Trading Initiative identified adverse labour rights risks and impacts in factories and informal supply chains of leather goods production clusters in India. Companies need to conduct more comprehensive due diligence, involving civil society organizations, in industries such as the export-oriented leather sector in India, with complex and largely unmapped supply chains.
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Realities of home-based labour in India’s leather sector
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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