Viewing all content tagged: Worker-driven Social Responsibility
Use the form to filter results
Search by Keyword
Type
Date Range
Issue
Inspections were promised to stop the rampant abuse inside sweatshops. So why are workers’ conditions ‘worse than ever before?’
Country:
Issues: Corporate Social Responsibility, Worker-driven Social Responsibility
Global Clothing Brands Should Respond to the #MeToo Mandate
Country: Lesotho
Issues: Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Worker-driven Social Responsibility
Landmark Agreements to Combat Gender-based Violence and Harassment in Lesotho’s Garment Industry
Country: Lesotho
Issues: Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Worker-driven Social Responsibility
Last Thursday marked the announcement of a set of landmark agreements among leading apparel brands, a coalition of labor unions and women’s rights advocates, and a major apparel supplier to combat gender-based violence and harassment in Lesotho’s garment sector. These enforceable agreements—with Levi Strauss & Co., The Children’s Place, and Kontoor Brands—link the each of…
Levi Strauss, Kontoor Back Worker-Protection Accord in Lesotho
Country: Lesotho
Issues: Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Worker-driven Social Responsibility
When ‘business as usual’ costs lives: workers in Pakistan call for a binding safety agreement
Country: Pakistan
Issues: Worker-driven Social Responsibility, Workplace Health and Safety
By Christie Miedema and Liana Foxvog – In Karachi, Pakistan, 11 September 2012 is ingrained into people’s minds as the day on which over 250 people did not return home to their families after a long day of work. A fire in the Ali Enterprises garment factory had spread rapidly, fed by the bales of finished product…