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Beyond Pledges on Child Labour

Beyond Pledges on Child Labour

Report The Centre for Child Rights and BusinessWorldwide
This publication examines progress on eradicating child labour and the persistent barriers that prevent businesses from addressing the issue more effectively. The publication serves both as a practical guide and a clear reminder: more action is urgently needed…every business can evaluate its supply chain practices to help prevent child labour.
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Brew it Fair Tea Report

Brew it Fair Tea Report

Report Fairtrade FoundationWorldwide
We need transformational change in the tea sector, with tea workers, industry, governments and NGOs working together so that the people behind the tea we drink can live decent lives. At Fairtrade, we will also be evolving our work on tea, so we can take our own impact to scale. Read the Brew it Fair report to dive deeper into…
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How Gender is Embedded in the Anker Methodology and an Exploration of Care Work and Living Wage

How Gender is Embedded in the Anker Methodology and an Exploration of Care Work and Living Wage

Report Anker Research InstituteWorldwide
This paper explains how a gender perspective is embedded into the Anker Methodology for estimating a living wage. This is important for transparency and for ensuring that users of Anker Methodology living wage and living income estimates and other interested parties understand the approach.
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Building a safe and healthy working environment in South Asian plantations

Building a safe and healthy working environment in South Asian plantations

Tools ILOSouth Asia
The International Labour Organization thus implemented the Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia project. This compendium highlights good practices that emerged from the project, providing practical guidance to project implementers, governments, employers and workers to improve workplace conditions in plantations. Moreover, it serves as a blueprint for other sectors and regions to replicate these achievements, helping…
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Training module on sexual harassment of women at workplace

Training module on sexual harassment of women at workplace

Tools V. V. Giri National Labour InstitueIndia
In 2013 the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 was brought into force by the Ministry of Women and Child. Despite these efforts, the benefits of these laws do not, often, percolate down to the beneficiaries. The main cause of this deficiency is the lack of awareness of the main stakeholders, like the women…
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A Private Sector Approach for Addressing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH)

A Private Sector Approach for Addressing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH)

Report Ethical Tea PartnershipKenya, Worldwide
The objective of the study is to foster better understanding of effective ways to respond to the direct and root causes and contributing factors of SEAH; and help producers, packers and retailers learn how they can act and collaborate to prevent further harm. The study, conducted between May and December 2024 by Claire Lynch Consulting and Partner Africa, centred on…
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Handbook on sexual harassment of women at workplace

Handbook on sexual harassment of women at workplace

Tools Government of IndiaIndia
The Handbook is structured nto six sections. The first section is an introduction and detail regarding the genesis of the Act, the second set the context by defining the workplace and sexual harassment and impact of such behaviour, the third focuses on the key individuals and institutions involved in prohibition and prevention processes and their responsibilities, section four discusses the…
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Our vision of the future of the tea industry – Kenya

Our vision of the future of the tea industry – Kenya

Report THIRSTKenya
THIRST worked with local experts to run Community Visioning Workshops with Kenyan tea plantation workers and smallholder farmers and youth in July and August 2024. This report captures their visions of a fair, transparent, resilient and tech-savvy tea sector.
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Human Rights in the tea sector – The Big Picture. Part 1 – Human rights in principle and practice (summary)

Human Rights in the tea sector – The Big Picture. Part 1 – Human rights in principle and practice (summary)

Report THIRSTWorldwide
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