Raising working standards for women workers to access their rights and protections in factories is the start of a journey to mature industrial relations.
With women making up most factory floor and agricultural workers, ETI has released new business guidance for companies on empowering women in supply chains.
While all the evidence shows that sexual harassment is a huge problem faced by women in garment factories in Bangladesh and India, it somehow does not appear in corrective action plans in audits.
The ILO is in a process of considering whether to establish a new convention on “Ending violence and harassment against women and men in the world of work”.
The growing trend around non-financial reporting, stemming from John Ruggie's Protect, Respect, Remedy framework, sees greater importance attached to human rights due diligence.
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