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"Three years ago, the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation, the Solidarity Center and the U.S. Agency for International Development teamed up to launch a campaign to improve road safety for Cambodia's garment workers."
"The Solidary Center has released a cross-sector study of gender-based violence and harassment which includes an exploration of issues experienced by women garment workers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Central America and Indonesia."
"According to the U.S.-based workers’ rights organization, Solidarity Center, which condemned the murder, [Shahidul] Islam was a trade union organizer for 25 years, and was president of the BGIWF’s Gazipur district committee."
“Unions are the largest civil society organizations in any country, they are membership-based, sustainable, and are themselves examples of democratic practice,” said Shawna Bader-Blau, the executive director of the Solidarity Center. “Weak or strong, they have...
Unions and workers across Africa need to be a part of government meetings about trade agreements, said Christopher Johnson, Solidarity Center Africa regional program director. "Worker rights need to be part of the conversation," he said. [minute 3:40]
The global brands purchasing from Southeast Asia’s garment factories often do little to intervene unless facing sustained pressure, said Dave Welsh, Burma and Thailand country director for labor rights NGO Solidarity Center, who also worked in Cambodia from 2010 to...
David Welsh, Solidarity Center’s Thailand country director, said: “Most people don’t know about Mae Sot. The same trends found in other supplying markets are there, however; namely a jurisdiction where the rule of law is weak, where wages and labor conditions are...
Twenty-three of the interviews were with local union leaders and rank-and-file members. Representatives of the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL), the Workers’ Rights Consortium, Solidarity Center and the Clean Clothes Campaign were also...
Haiti garment workers should be paid four times their current salaries just to keep pace with the cost of living, a new Solidarity Center study has found.
If severance cases continue to be treated individually and the garment industry and governments do not implement measures to prevent wage theft, no brand will make serious efforts to reform supply chains, said David Welsh, Solidarity Center country program director...