As Bangladesh grapples with overlapping political, economic, and labour market challenges, a new research on the country’s readymade garment sector has unearthed presence of child labour, including under illegal terms of work and in hazardous conditions, abuse of vulnerability of individuals living below the poverty line, abusive working conditions, among other things.
With aggressive European Union mandatory human rights due diligence legislation under development, GoodWeave International and Fair Wear Foundation have joined forces to address child and forced labour in hidden and informal parts of apparel and textile supply chains.
WASHINGTON, U.S.: GoodWeave International, a nonprofit organization working to end child, forced and bonded labor in global supply chains, has added Siddharth Kara and Jacqueline Joudo Larsen to its board of directors while also appointing new Standards Committee members. This is part of the organization’s ongoing effort to ensure a balanced and...
