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To Eliminate Gender Based Violence and Harassment

Dindigul Agreement

This is GLI’s year two assessment of the processes and outcomes of an innovative agreement regarding freedom of association and the elimination of gender based violence at a South Indian apparel factory that could be a model for other factories around the world.

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Measuring Supply Chain Due Diligence

Labor Outcomes Metrics

Read about the Global Labor Institute's new quantitative metrics that measure labor outcomes—actual impacts for workers.

Workers in Bangladesh
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Higher Ground? Fashion’s Climate Breakdown

Impacts of climate change on global apparel production

In partnership with Schroders, we report the impacts of climate change on global apparel production. In our first report, we track climate change impacts at the global, national, and factory levels. We map fashion's climate vulnerabilities across production centers, and estimate future economic damages from extreme heat and flooding. Our second report examines company-level climate risk, cost, and financing for adaption and just resilience.

Textile workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Sourcing Journal: 'Heat Check: Searing Temps Lead to Unsafe Working Conditions in the Global South'

Sourcing Journal
“[I]n Cambodia, the law says the temperature should not be such that it affects workers’ health. That’s worse than useless because the government can point to a standard and say, ‘Well, of course, we have a legal standard'...But of course, the standard’s meaningless.”
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Sourcing Journal: 'Heat Check: Searing Temps Lead to Unsafe Working Conditions in the Global South'

Event: Corporate Sustainability and Accountability: How is it working for labor rights?

Please join us for this event in Brussels organized by Cornell GLI, ECCHR, and Human Rights watch on due diligence and reporting requirement, like the EU CSDDD and their forced labor ban. Member of European Parliament Lara Wolters will be a part of the two expert panels.
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Event: Corporate Sustainability and Accountability: How is it working for labor rights?

GLI Executive Director Jason Judd Guests on the ‘Frankly Speaking’ Podcast

GLI Executive Director Jason Judd is on the ‘Frankly Speaking’ podcast from Frank Bold, where he discusses the just transition, GLI’s labor outcome metrics, and sheep, goats, foxes, and hedgehogs.
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GLI Executive Director Jason Judd Guests on the ‘Frankly Speaking’ Podcast

‘Freedom at Sea’ eCornell Webinar: Journalist Daniel Murphy and Jason Judd on Forced Labor in Commercial Fishing

GLI Executive Director Jason Judd and top investigative journalist Daniel Murphy headlined the eCornell ‘Freedom at Sea’ webinar on how to detect and combat forced labor in commercial fishing.
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‘Freedom at Sea’ eCornell Webinar: Journalist Daniel Murphy and Jason Judd on Forced Labor in Commercial Fishing

Eliminating Gender-based Violence and Harassment in Global Supply Chains

We present here our analysis of processes and outcomes in year 2 of the operation of the agreement, as a prelude to a more comprehensive evaluation in 2025 when the agreement expires.
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Eliminating Gender-based Violence and Harassment in Global Supply Chains

GLI Executive Director Jason Judd Profiled in The New Statesman (UK) ‘Policy Ask’

The New Statesman
GLI executive director Jason Judd is profiled in The New Statesman (UK) ‘Policy Ask’. He talks about the UK’s Modern Slavery Act (‘Not fit for purpose’), the impact of GLI’s 2023 Higher Ground? reports, and renaming Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Bridge.
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GLI Executive Director Jason Judd Profiled in The New Statesman (UK) ‘Policy Ask’

Change or Groundhog Day? What new research tells us about what works in global labor governance

2024 GLI Conference Highlights

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