Are private human rights mechanisms a worthwhile investment and, if so, how can they be strengthened so as to contribute to continuous improvement in business practices in relation to human rights? A key component of the United Nations' Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights is the idea...

This online supplement provides a detailed case study of the strategies pursued by a particulartrade union (Perbupas, which later changed its name to SBGTS) to claim the rights to freedom ofassociation and collective bargaining in a particular sports shoe factory (Factory C*) inIndonesia over a...

This case study describes how Indonesian garment and footwear workers, and allied organisations have used a combination of strategies to pursue their rights, which includes engaging with local and international non-judicial mechanisms. The case study analyses their efforts to influence the local...

The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) propose that ‘non-state-based non-judicial grievance mechanisms' have an important role to play in remedying human rights violations linked to transnational business, in addition to state-based judicial and non-judicial...

This report is about the grievances of young women, predominantly from disadvantaged Dalit and low caste communities, who are recruited from remote and impoverished rural villages to work in textile mills and garment factories (herein the ‘garment sector') in a number of districts of Tamil...

This paper theorises the position of women footwear homeworkers through the lens of global production networks. Using data collected in India during 2011 to 2014, it illustrates the asymmetry of power between network actors, and attests to the poverty, invisibility and lack of acknowledgement...

On May 12, 1998, Nike's CEO and founder Mr. Phillip Knight spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC and made what were, in his words, "some fairly significant announcements" regarding Nike's policies on working conditions in its supplier factories. The announcements received favorable...

This article analyses the capacity of global non-state networks of civil society actors to effectively supplement weak state regulation in reducing human rights abuse by multi-national companies (MNCs). The effectiveness of NGOs used as part of a network of control finds support both in the...