Big Brands: the Missing Voice in the Fight to End Gender-Based Violence at Work

(OpenDemocracy) – In the last week of May and first week of June 2018, trade unions, governments, and employers convened at the International Labor Organization’s 107th Session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva to negotiate an international standard on gender-based violence. The ILO Tripartite Committee ultimately decided to move forward towards trying to adopt a convention and recommendation at the close of negotiations in 2019.  However, the position of employers at the negotiating table remained ambivalent and the voice of multinational brands was missing. Despite research by the ILO and others showing…

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