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Women Workers' Health Need Better Focus In Garment

WEBKaveri MT & Deepak Nikarthil. A desk job could give you back pain and eye strain. For thousands of women workers in the garments and footwear industry, the …

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Women Garment Workers : Overworked, Underpaid, and Unwell

WEBThe study also notes that 29% of the workers were underweight, while 18% were overweight. Sexual and Reproductive Health: Menstrual irregularities were …

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Report on Occupational Health and Safety (OHS): Coffee …

WEB4/15 2. COFFEE PLANTATIONS AND OHS IN KARNATAKA Indian-grown coffee constitutes 3.66% of the global production, and 70% of the produce is exported, mainly …

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Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) for India's coffee plantation

WEBThe current legally determined daily wage for plantation workers in the state is INR 324 (€ 4.12). Working on these plantations comes with a host of occupational …

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Cividep India Why Do Lockdown Blues Still Plague Teens From …

WEBA study on how the pandemic lockdowns worsened the mental health of adolescent girls in low wage, garment worker families in India.

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A new living wage benchmark for tea workers

WEBThe monthly living wage benchmark for the rural Nilgiris tea sector put forward in the final GLWC report is INR 11,422 per person (or INR 12,666 in July 2020, adjusted …

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Home-Based Workers Archives

WEBThis edition of Field Diary is all about the Cividep team and partners reaching out to women workers – using technology on the field, going to far-flung villages to meet …

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Bitter Brew: Poor working conditions in Nilgiri tea …

WEBThe minimum wage for tea plantation workers in Tamil Nadu is INR 305, and the estates pay INR 314 per day. It would therefore seem as though estates pay higher …

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Uncovering The Labour Behind Leather

WEBThe Together for Decent Leather project, initiated in 2020, is a multi-country civil society consortium striving to improve working conditions in global leather supply …

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Remembering Jane Tate, who stood with the most vulnerable …

WEBJane retired from HWW in 2017 due to ill health. In September 2018, Jane died at the age of 73 at her home in Leeds.”. The first time anyone in Cividep met Jane …

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A Decade of Strides: Worker Voices Resonate In Ambur

WEBA core focus of Cividep’s work since its inception in 2000 has been to ensure decent work for workers at the bottom rungs of global supply chains, whether it is …

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Watch your step!: Social and environmental impacts of tanneries in

WEBThe process of turning animal skin into leather is called tanning. The leather industry is one of the most labour-intensive sectors in India, providing employment to 2.5 …

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Leather Homeworkers Face Many Health Risks

WEBThese revealed that homebased workers suffer from severe musculoskeletal disorder (s) (MSD), one of the prominent occupational health diseases, affecting …

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Tougher than leather: working conditions in Indian tanneries

WEBThe environmental impact and the impact on the health of local communities and workers in the industry have been called into question repeatedly, demonstrably …

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Sustainability certification for Samsung’s S4 smartphone must be

WEBPress release by global OHS and sustainability rights activists in condemnation of the “Sustainability Certification” issued to Samsung’s Galaxy S4 …

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Working conditions in Tamil Nadu's tanneries

WEBCividep India’s collaborative research report on environmental and health impacts of the tanning industry in Tamil Nadu finds mention in an article by the Pulitzer …

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