Over the past several months, in Issara’s ongoing engagement with brands and retailers, business associations, and environmental sustainability colleagues, Issara has been asked many times what worker voice is. It is widely observed at this point that there are more and more programs and technologies emerging that refer to themselves as “worker voice,” but then also a sneaking suspicion that not all are. So how to understand what worker voice is, why it is important for both workers and business, and what harm can be done by positioning a program as worker voice when it really is not?
Amongst the worst crimes associated with illicit trade is the demand it creates for forced and child labor to carry out the tasks of making counterfeits, sewing fake logos on luxury apparel, or harvesting illegal fish. This report shows that&nb...Read More
An overview of the risks to migrant workers on construction projects across the Gulf. Migrant workers make up between 60% and 90% of the workforce in the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Low-wage construction workers are at parti...Read More
To explain how it expects its suppliers to live up to its Standards, Adidas has produced a number of supporting guidelines that detail its expectations for fair, healthy, safe workplace conditions and environmentally sound factory operations. T...Read More
In July 2021, The Avery Center and the National Survivor Law Collective (NSL Collective) co-authored the first Legal Deserts Report to depict the landscape of legal services for survivors of trafficking. Specifically, The Avery Center's research tea...Read More
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