Safeguarding human rights and preventing GBVH across the supply chain requires cooperation among all relevant actors. Following the alleged rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit worker, Jeyasre Kathiravel, in South India, the Dindigul Agreement was signed in 2022.
The Wangu Kanja Foundation (WKF) recognised the gap in capacity employers may have in safeguarding and drafted written guidance and a training to fill this.
"In the South African context, it's important not to force people to do things. It's about wooing people, building trusting relationships and winning over their confidence."
"It was very dusty.. the sweat dripping of the end of your nose by time you were half way through, then when you were coming home you didn't have energy to have a wash properly.."
The new law on sexual harassment at the workplace in India: could this be the game changer that enables ETI members and others to push for action on the discrimination provisions in the ETI Base Code?
Training workers, supervisors and managers on equal treatment improves morale, communications and productivity. ETI's Sabita Banerji reports from Stellenbosch.
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