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  • Home-based worker, Tanzania, Uganda Post
    Building Collective Power August 16, 2024

    Why African Craft Makers Should Understand Supply Chains Better

    African home-based workers are at the bottom of craft supply chains. Through an increased understanding of those supply chains they could...

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  • Resource Documents

    Craft Supply Chains in Africa: Consolidating Our Findings

    Key Points

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  • Report

    Chains and Challenges: Craft Supply Chains in Africa

    Because crafts are such an important source of work and income for home‑based workers in Africa, HomeNet Africa, in partnership with WIEGO,...

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  • Home-Based Workers, Lahore, Pakistan, 2014 Post
    Building Collective Power January 31, 2023

    The Journey Towards Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

    Home-based workers in Pakistan’s Sindh province achieved a historic victory with legislation that gives approximately 5 million home-based...

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  • Workstation of a home-based worker in Ahmedabad, India Worker Story

    Reshmaben Bashirkhan Pathan, a home-based worker organizer in Ahmedabad, India

    Reshmaben is an organizer with the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). She learnt tailoring from her mother when she was 14. Now, at...

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  • Worker's hands External Blog Posts/Op Eds

    It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center

    Excerpt from the opinion piece, It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center by Darren Walker (president...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    The OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains in the Garment and Footwear Sector: Its Application to Homeworkers

    In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council endorsed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. These principles are important...

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  • Garment worker in Thailand Post

    Informal Workers, Social Audits and Human Rights Due Diligence in Supply Chains

    In December 2020, the EU Council requested the EU Commission to draft a legal framework that would make it mandatory for all companies established...

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  • Marlese Von Broembsen Nov 25 2020

    Identifying and addressing risks of informal work in textile supply chains

    • November 25, 2020
    • Online
      Germany

    Marlese von Broembsen, director of WIEGO’s law programme, presented at the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles virtual event focusing...

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  • Garment Worker in India Sep 25 2020

    Global Supply Chains in Times of COVID-19 – Global Labour University MOOC

    • September 25, 2020
    • Online

    In August 2020, The Global Labour University launched a free self-paced Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Global Supply Chains in Times...

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