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Interview – Arisa partner Paradigm Shift on the Factory Support Programme

14 May 2024
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…

Resuming the Factory Support Programme

15 March 2024
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…

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

11 January 2024
Violations of human and labour rights and environmental damage are commonplace in natural stone quarries around the world. In the TruStone initiative, companies work…

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 

26 September 2023
Venkat Reddy has been working for several decades to achieve the total elimination of child labour in communities and to promote the right of…

BASF, Syngenta, and Arisa mark phase one completion of multistakeholder collaboration to improve labor standards in India’s vegetable seed sector

28 June 2023
Four-year collaboration enters phase two, ready to implement real action to address child labor and minimum wage compliance issues. The Netherlands / United States…

Another delay for responsible supply chain legislation

10 October 2023
In the Netherlands, a legal requirement for companies to identify and address abuses in their supply chains has been a topic of discussion for…

Winners and losers of the EU-India free trade agreement

8 May 2023
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-…

Human rights a requirement when we talk business

21 December 2022
Last November, India became one of the first countries to undergo its fourth cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle at the United Nations Human…

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

21 December 2022
For more than 20 years, Arisa has been advocating for supply chain transparency. In all our reports reporting labour rights violations in the garment,…

Arisa contributes to SER project on Meaningful Stakeholder dialogue  

21 December 2022
The "meaningful dialogue project", launched in May this year, aims to help companies put into practice meaningful dialogue with trade unions, civil society organisations…

Strengthening civil society deserves more urgency in the Dutch National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights

18 October 2022
In the new National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights 2022-2026 (NAP), Minister Liesje Schreinemacher indicates how she will implement the United Nations…

European Commission’s proposal against forced labour is not sufficient

18 October 2022
On September 14, the European Commission (EC) submitted a proposal to combat forced labour worldwide. The executive body of the EU wants to remove…

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