Viewing all content with location: Global
Use the form to filter results
Search by Keyword
Type
Date Range
Issue
WRC WHITE PAPER: Who will bail out the workers that make our clothes?
Published: March 26, 2020
Co-authored by WRC executive director Scott Nova and the CCC’s Ineke Zeldenrust, this white paper explains how brands and retailers are shoring up their own finances by refusing to honor contracts with apparel suppliers, forcing suppliers to the brink of bankruptcy and causing large-scale dismissals of workers. The report calls for brands to pay suppliers what they owe them, for the swift mobilization of international financial resources to provide income support to garment workers, and for deeper reforms to address the supply chain inequities that Covid-19 is laying bare.
¿Quién va a rescatar a las trabajadoras(es) que fabrican nuestra ropa?
Published: March 26, 2020
Disponible además en español aquí
যে শ্রমিকেরা আমাদের কাপড় তৈরি করেন তাদের অর্থনৈতিক সুরক্ষা কে দেবে?
Published: March 26, 2020
বাংলায় সহজলভ্য
Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers, 2001-2011
Published: July 17, 2013
Garment workers in many of the leading apparel-exporting countries earn little more than subsistence wages for the long hours of labor that they perform. And in many of these countries, as this report discusses, the buying power of these wages is going down, not up.
Despite progress gender-based violence and harassment is still a reality for global garment workers
Published: December 13, 2019
By Rola Abimourched – Today marks the end of this year’s “16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence” campaign. Since its inception in the 1990s, feminist organisations, activists, and courageous individuals have tirelessly foregrounded women’s experiences of violence in their homes, communities, and workplaces. Beyond raising awareness, organisations and individuals have used these sixteen days…