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The evolution of multi-stakeholder initiatives: Lessons for the Bangladesh...
In the months since the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh sparked a drive to address worker health and safety in the garment sector, I’ve been suffering a severe case of déjà vu. Here’s how it...
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Three reasons why the UK National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights...
This week the UK government takes the historic step of becoming one of the first institutions to make an official statement on how companies should operationalize the UN Guiding Principles on Business...
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The Business Case for Worker Empowerment: Evidence from the Sri Lankan Tea...
I’ve written about the business case for empowering women producers before; but the financial justification for inclusive business goes much further than that. Today, CARE International published “A...
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What the BBC didn’t say about workers in Bangladesh
The BBC’s recent Panorama investigation, Dying for a Bargain, brought welcome attention to the issue of workers’ rights in the Bangladesh garment sector, where more than 1,100 people recently died in...
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Hanging by a thread: Workers’ rights and lives
I was working in my room on the fourth floor of a hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s busy capital, when I saw a man hanging by a rope. To be precise, he was suspended on a fragile-looking piece of wood tied...
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