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Reimagining HRDD: Centering Impact and Outcome for Workers’ Rights

Posted by Nikita Joseph | Dec 3, 2025

Cividep India’s new study reveals how global fashion brands’ purchasing practices — including price suppression and shrinking lead times — create systemic pressures that translate into unpaid overtime, wage violations, and workplace abuse for garment workers in India. The research reframes brand accountability through the lens of monopsony power, arguing that meaningful Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) must go beyond compliance checklists to deliver measurable improvements in labour rights and working conditions.

Field Diary – The Women Behind Ambur’s Leather

Posted by Cividep India | Oct 31, 2025

Step beyond the spreadsheet and into the lives of the women in Ambur’s leather industry. This field diary reveals their quiet resilience, the gap between policy and practice, and the urgent need for fair wages and safe working conditions. Read their untold stories.

A Decade of Strides: Worker Voices Resonate In Ambur

Posted by Nikita Joseph | Sep 29, 2023

Cividep marks a decade in Ambur, South India’s leather manufacturing hub, supporting low-wage workers, championing their rights and creating a wave of awareness and change. Our story intertwines with those of the workers, like Soniya, whose lives have been transformed through empowerment and advocacy through outreach activities. Navigate through this journey of challenges, strategies, and triumph.

Topic: leather workers

Reimagining HRDD: Centering Impact and Outcome for Workers’ Rights

Field Diary – The Women Behind Ambur’s Leather

A Decade of Strides: Worker Voices Resonate In Ambur