Why is it so important to approach the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) with a gender lens?

Women workers in highly feminised labour sectors are subject to specific workplace risks, discrimination and gender related abuse and violence. This, ETI member FLEX argues, presents challenges around reach, trust and detection.

An educational guide about period poverty, the myths and taboos around menstruation, and ways to empower girls and women against period poverty.

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.

Economic empowerment is about rights, justice and creating a movement that will leave no woman behind.

If women workers feel demeaned, if they can’t speak out and if they avoid certain areas in the workplace – there is a cost.

Witnessing empowered women workers speaking for themselves – from women’s health issues to working hours, proper pay slips and other labour standards.

ETI and Oxfam asked 200 women working in strawberry farms and packing houses in Northern Morocco to tell us a story.