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Join us at @afwa.bsky.social & @globallaborjustice.bsky.social's #OECD side session on an enforceable worker-led model to address #GBVH:

Reweaving Supply Chain Governance: Lessons from the Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice
📅 Feb 13
⏰ 12:15 – 1:30PM CET

www.oecd-events.org/e/garment/se...

Join our virtual side-session at the #OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment & Footwear Sector.

When Workers Are Silenced for Exercising Their Rights: Countering Criminalisation and Advancing Corporate Responsibility for Remedy
📅 Mon, Feb 9
⏰ 3–4:30PM CET
www.workersrights.org/2026-oecd-fo...

Twenty-Five Years of the WRC: Redefining What’s Possible  - Worker Rights Consortium This year marked a key moment of reflection for the Worker Rights Consortium, as we commemorated our 25th anniversary.

The Worker Rights Consortium is marking 25 years of advancing real accountability in global apparel supply chains.

What started with student activism has grown into a global-scale corporate accountability mechanism—urgent now more than ever.

Read more: bit.ly/48GyEso

#WorkerRights

Twenty-Five Years of the WRC: Redefining What’s Possible  - Worker Rights Consortium This year marked a key moment of reflection for the Worker Rights Consortium, as we commemorated our 25th anniversary.

The Worker Rights Consortium is marking 25 years of advancing real accountability in global apparel supply chains.
What started with student activism has grown into a global-scale corporate accountability mechanism—urgent now more than ever.
Read more: bit.ly/48GyEso
#LaborRights

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Will you support workers this #GivingTuesday? Daily, workers in global supply chains face abusive working conditions. Our individual donors share our vision of a world where workers earn a living wage and organize without fear. Thank you for any gift you can make today. www.workersrights.org/donate/

Landmark Redress for Falsely Imprisoned Worker Leader Won with Breakthrough Union Recognition for 20,000 Workers - Worker Rights Consortium Worker Rights Consortium

Congratulations to SAGE grantees @4workerrights.bsky.social, CATU, and Chea Chan on this victory for labor rights in Cambodia! Better-late-than-never remedy from the brands, but it came at a high personal cost for Chan.
www.workersrights.org/commentary/l...

What you missed at New York Climate Week President Trump’s anti-ESG backlash sparked fears of a muted and despondent New York Climate Week. The reality was anything but.

“You can’t have environmental sustainability while abusing workers’ rights,” Thulsi Narayanasamy, our Director of International Advocacy, said.

“The causes of both are inextricably linked—and the solutions must be, too.”

Read more from Vogue Business: bit.ly/47bUTFJ

We joined @cleanclothes.bsky.social, Katalyst Initiative & @solidaritycenter.bsky.social at #ClimateWeekNY for “Too Hot To Fashion”, a panel on what a #JustTransition means for garment workers.

Fair purchasing & living wages are key to tackling fashion’s climate impact.

#LaborRights

Lucky Brand Joins AEO and Puma to Help Workers Owed $1.5 Million by Guatemalan Subcontractor - Worker Rights Consortium Worker Rights Consortium

We are pleased to report that Lucky Brand has made a humanitarian contribution of $500,000 to assist garment workers at the Industrial Hana factory in Guatemala, which was, prior to its closure, a subcontractor for one of Lucky Brand’s direct apparel suppliers. www.workersrights.org/commentary/l...

In Bangkok at #UNRBHR2025?

Please join our civil society only session tomorrow:

Turning Law into Justice: Leveraging Due Diligence for Worker Remedy
📅16 September 2025 | 10:30 - 12:00 ICT
📍UN Conference Centre | Conference Room 1
Registration (optional): www.workersrights.org/2025-united-...

The Worker Rights Consortium: Fighting for Garment Workers Worldwide - Ford Foundation The Worker Rights Consortium protects garment workers rights by using university licensing agreements to hold global brands accountable

Great piece by @fordfoundation.org on SAGE grantee @4workerrights.bsky.social about its strategy of securing binding agreements with garment brands to improve labor rights at the factories that supply their clothes!

www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-sto...

Bangladesh Minimum Wage Negotiations Put Brands’ Living Wage “Commitments” to the Test - Worker Rights Consortium Worker Rights Consortium

WRC to brands:
✔ Pay in full for all goods you’ve ordered
✔ Don’t slash prices on new orders
✔ Protect workers if you relocate
📢 We lay out what’s at stake:
🔗 bit.ly/4kTYqwA
#Tariffs #GarmentWorkers #LaborRights

Bangladesh Minimum Wage Negotiations Put Brands’ Living Wage “Commitments” to the Test - Worker Rights Consortium Worker Rights Consortium

New tariffs increase costs.
But brands must not shift those costs onto workers earning $1/hr.
Brands can afford to pay. Workers cannot.

🔗 bit.ly/4kTYqwA

#LaborRights #GarmentWorkers #TariffImpact

WRC Advances Workers’ Rights on Global Stages: OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector and United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 2025 Highlights - Worker Rights Conso... Worker Rights Consortium

At #CSW69, WRC spotlighted the Central Java Gender Justice Agreement—a worker-led program to end gender-based violence.

✅ Protects 6,250+ women workers

✅ Enforces #ILOC190 standards

@globallaborjustice.bsky.social

Read more: bit.ly/4j6Vko6

#GenderJustice #CSW2025

WRC Advances Workers’ Rights on Global Stages: OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector and United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 2025 Highlights - Worker Rights Conso... Worker Rights Consortium

WRC at #OECD 2025 🌍

Three WRC experts joined three @oecd-ocde.bsky.social side session panels on #duediligence, #forcedlabor & #bindingagreements - emphasizing worker-driven solutions.

📖 Read our latest commentary: 🔗 bit.ly/4j6Vko6

#OECDForum #LaborRights

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Join us @ this important parallel event: ILO Convention 190 & Beijing+30: Bridging Gender & Labor

🏙️ NYC 📆 March 18

The session will explore how #labor & #genderjustice intersect to push for stronger protections under #ILOC190. #GenderAndLabor

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Breakthrough for #genderjustice: “The Central Java Gender Justice Agreement will make Ontide in Central Java one of the safest places for women workers anywhere in the global apparel industry.” #LaborRights

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After years of gender-based violence and harassment, #womenworkers in #Indonesia have won a historic agreement protecting 6,250 garment workers producing for Fanatics. #GenderJustice #LaborRights tinyurl.com/39y35prx

EXCLUSIVE: Fanatics, Nike Back Binding Agreement to Fight Workplace Sexual Violence in Indonesia The Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice, a first in Southeast Asia, will create safer, union-overseen conditions for women garment workers who suffered abuse at two factories.

The Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice, a first in Southeast Asia, will create safer, union-overseen conditions for women garment workers who suffered abuse at two factories.

@globallaborjustice.bsky.social

NGO CSW69/Beijing+30 Forum Registration hosted by Whova 2025-03-09, New York, NY

Join us at #CSW69 for Women Workers Stand Up to Workplace Violence & Harassment – a discussion on the Central Java Gender Justice Agreement. 🗓️March 17 | 2:30 PM📍NYC
Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5d55npe3 #GenderJustice #GBVH #WorkerRights

Groundbreaking work by worker leaders from SPN, SPSI, and KASBI, who came together to negotiate this historic agreement.

From Fear to Power: How Indonesian Women Workers Won Binding Commitments for Change - Worker Rights Consortium Worker Rights Consortium

Women workers in #Indonesia, with support from WRC, Asia Floor Wage Alliance & @globallaborjustice.bsky.social, have signed the new Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice. A model for ending #GBVH in supply chains—through binding, enforceable agreements. #GBVH #LaborRights tinyurl.com/39y35prx