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Ongoing protests against wage arrears, poor conditions; impacts of West Asia conflict; Kenya’s shock cancellation of RA certification.

The report highlights poverty and socio-economic insecurity as the major causes of child labour in farming households, particularly in tea-growing households in Malawi. It analyses the current financial landscape of Malawi, identifying financial providers offering services to farming households, and determines the opportunities and challenges of financial inclusion for farming households and their usage of different financial products.

This study aims to document human and labor rights violations – especially sexual exploitation- understand the dynamics that perpetuate them, and assess the capacity of stakeholders to address them. It aims to provide actionable recommendations based on the firsthand accounts of affected women.

Upcoming event Equifarm tea farmer with a sample of her produce. Image courtesy of Grassroots Tea Corporation. Smallholder tea farmers often face an uphill battle. With limited access to markets, many are forced to sell their green leaves to intermediaries or large factories quickly and often at unfair prices. But a quiet revolution is brewing….

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.

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 the reality for tea workers today and how we can all play a part in making the trade system fairer. This report aims to: • Provide an overview of the reality for tea workers today. • Share the views of the people who grow and pick our tea in Kenya. • Make recommendations for how we can all play a part in making the trade system fairer, so the people behind the tea we drink can live decent lives.

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.

This month we cover the impact of US tarrifs on tea producing countries, intensifying labour unrest across S. Asia, the human…

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 to extend the benefits of safer and more equitable working environments to a broader range of workers.

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 workers, the beneficiaries themselves, and sometimes, the implementers. While imparting training at various workplaces, it was felt that there is a need to develop a training manual which should include comprehensive information on different aspects of sexual harassment policies. The module will be extremely useful to different stakeholders who are engaged in the area of disseminating information on sexual harassment laws, policies and procedures. The present module is designed, keeping in view the concept of Sexual Harassment, Global and National level Initiatives to Prevent Sexual Harassment, Effective working of Internal Complaints Committees / Local Complaints Committees, Creating Sustainable Inclusive Environment in the World of Work along with good practices from Indian scenario. This training module consists of group exercises and related handouts on
gender issues and sexual harassment at workplace. The exercises are designed to be interactive, participatory and experiential to maximise learning. Entire module has been developed to assist facilitators to introduce and explore gender issues and sexual harassment at the workplace.