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Supporting granite workers in Andhra Pradesh, India – ‘It is a slow process, but step by step we are achieving change’

These are the words of Kishore, coordinator of the Paradigm Shift project team working in the Ballikurava region of Andhra Pradesh, India. Together with…

Lisanne Beijen8 October 2024

Interview

The results of the Factory Support Programme

About the Factory Support Programme Arisa and its partners’ Factory Support Programme took place in India between September 2020 and March 2024. Programme implementation…

Lisanne Beijen18 September 2024

Interview

Interview – Arisa partner Paradigm Shift on the Factory Support Programme

The Factory Support Programme resumed in 2023 with Paradigm Shift as Arisa’s implementing partner in Tamil Nadu and the National Capital Region, India. The programme…

Lisanne Beijen14 May 2024

News

Resuming the Factory Support Programme

After a one-year gap, the Factory Support Programme resumed in 2023 with Paradigm Shift as Arisa’s implementing partner in Tamil Nadu and the National…

Lisanne Beijen15 March 2024

News

TruStone – The natural stone supply chain is improving, but there is still much work to be done

Violations of human and labour rights and environmental damage are commonplace in natural stone quarries around the world. In the TruStone initiative, companies work…

Lisanne Beijen11 January 2024

Interview

Interview – Venkat Reddy (National Convenor at MV Foundation, India) on the Area Based Approach to eradicate child labour and the essential role of Community Mobilisers

Venkat Reddy has been working for several decades to achieve the total elimination of child labour in communities and to promote the right of…

Lisanne Beijen26 September 2023

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Winners and losers of the EU-India free trade agreement

Will India's fishing industry soon disappear? And how will smallholder farmers fare? Will patients worldwide have to pay much more for their -now inexpensive-…

Lisanne Beijen8 May 2023

Article News

Human rights a requirement when we talk business

Last November, India became one of the first countries to undergo its fourth cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle at the United Nations Human…

Lisanne Beijen21 December 2022

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Supply chain transparency: not an end goal but a means against labour rights violations

For more than 20 years, Arisa has been advocating for supply chain transparency. In all our reports reporting labour rights violations in the garment,…

Lisanne Beijen21 December 2022

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Arisa contributes to SER project on Meaningful Stakeholder dialogue

The "meaningful dialogue project", launched in May this year, aims to help companies put into practice meaningful dialogue with trade unions, civil society organisations…

Lisanne Beijen21 December 2022