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.
We brought together 10 brands and the University of Manchester to analyse progress being made in ensuring greater gender equality in international supply chains.
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.
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.
GAIA Principle 4 case study. A farming production business faced several allegations of human rights abuses including bribery, coercion, loan sharking and GBVH by employees in and around the workplace.