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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

OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector The WRC…

March 25, 2025
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69th UN Commission on the Status of Women Parallel Event

Parallel Session: Women Workers Stand up to Workplace Violence and Harassment—The Central Java…

March 18, 2025
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From Fear to Power: How Indonesian Women Workers Won Binding Commitments for Change

After organizing against gender-based violence and harassment on the factory floor, courageous women…

March 12, 2025
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WRC Engagement with Major US Brands Wins Reinstatement, 2+ Years Back Pay for Haitian Workers Fired for Protesting Poverty Wages

The WRC’s engagement with top US retailers has secured reinstatement with full back…

March 6, 2025
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2025 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector

Side Session: Leveraging the impact of non-judicial remedy pathways to strengthen rule of…

February 11, 2025
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Backsliding toward Disaster? The Power of Factory Owners over the RMG Sustainability Council Is Putting Workers’ Lives at Risk

Under the Bangladesh Accord, now the International Accord, garment factories in Bangladesh have…

February 10, 2025
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$1.5 Million Wage Theft from Guatemalan Workers Who Made Lucky Brand Owned by Authentic and Shein

As the WRC reported previously, Industrial Hana, a garment factory in Guatemala,…

November 5, 2024
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Hugo Boss—Heartless to Heart and Mind Workers, Workers Who Sewed for Brand at Thai Factory Denied Severance

Hugo Boss continues to refuse to ensure that workers who made its branded clothes receive…

October 21, 2024
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Cambodian Worker Leader Imprisoned on Factory’s False Charges Acquitted—ASICS, MUJI Fail to Require Supplier to Compensate Worker It Wrongly Accused

Wing Star Shoes in Cambodia, which supplies the Japanese brands, ASICS and MUJI,…

October 2, 2024
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WRC Statement in Response to Murder of Anastacio Tzib Caal

The WRC was shocked and outraged by the assassination of Guatemalan garment worker…

July 15, 2024
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ASICS Allowed Cambodian Supplier Factory to Have Worker Jailed for Months, Sentenced to One Year in Prison in Retaliation for Forming Union

In recent years, the Cambodian government has intensified its crackdown on workers’ right…

July 2, 2024
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WRC Secures Five Months’ Wages in Unpaid Severance for Workers of Former Workwear Factory in Haiti

This past holiday season, former workers of Horizon Manufacturing, a garment factory in…

February 27, 2024