Star of Ambur: Not Biriyani But Women Who Stitch Fancy Shoes For A Pittance
A photo story of Ambur’s leather homeworkers.
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Topic: Home-Based Workers
Leather Homeworkers Face Many Health Risks
Problems linked to lack of recognition of workers, writes Kohila Senbagam
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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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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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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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