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News: Burned India denim factory had single door reached by ladder
The Associated Press' Sheikh Saaliq and Martha Mendoza report on the recent factory fire in Ahmedabad, India, that took the lives of seven workers. The factory where the fire occurred, Nandan Denim, is one of the world's leading denim manufacturers.
Video: Worker-driven Social Responsibility Beyond the Headlines
The WSR Network’s new two-minute video explains worker-driven social responsibility, an innovative paradigm for protecting fundamental human rights in corporate supply chains that emerged out of worker-led efforts.
Commentary: Despite progress, gender-based violence and harassment is still a reality for garment workers globally
For garment workers around the world, gender-based violence in the workplace is the rule rather than the exception. What does it take to shift the needle? The WRC's Rola Abimourched responds.
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Surge in Garment Industry Transparency: Laws Needed to Ensure Companies Adopt Human Rights Practices
(New York, December 18, 2019) – Clothing and footwear brands and retailers have dramatically increased their disclosure of information about their supply chains in the past three years, a coalition of unions, human rights groups, and labor rights advocates said in a joint report released today. In 2016, the coalition created the Transparency Pledge, a…
Largest Sum Ever: WRC recovers US$4.5 Million in unpaid severance
In the fall of 2019, two thousand Indonesian workers received what the WRC believes to be the largest amount workers have won in a single case of illegally denied severance. On July 2, 2018, the management of PT Kahoindah Citragarment (Kahoindah), an Indonesian garment factory owned by the Korean firm Hojeon LLC, had announced that…
When ‘business as usual’ costs lives: workers in Pakistan call for a binding safety agreement
By Christie Miedema and Liana Foxvog – In Karachi, Pakistan, 11 September 2012 is ingrained into people’s minds as the day on which over 250 people did not return home to their families after a long day of work. A fire in the Ali Enterprises garment factory had spread rapidly, fed by the bales of finished product…
Challenging the Status Quo: Helping Workers Protect their Associational Rights in Myanmar
Freedom of association is a fundamental and critical right allowing workers to collectively demand better working conditions. Yet factory management around the world often deny workers this right, illegally terminating union leaders, and sometimes employing violence to quell union organizing. Buyers at the top of the supply chain generally fail to detect such violations or…