Alongside Asia Floor Wage Alliance and Society for Labour and Development, we collected testimonies from 90 women workers in 31 factories across three major garment-producing hubs in India: Delhi NCR, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Our findings demonstrate gender-based violence and harassment in Indian garment factories intensified due to fashion brands’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We recorded 615 attacks against human rights defenders who raised concerns about business-related abuse in 2021. Read our annual analysis of attacks and recommendations for companies, investors and governments.

Delays to the EU’s legislative proposal for mHREDD, which will signal a step-change for corporate human rights, must be used to ensure an ambitious standard is set with tangible impacts for workers. This report provides new evidence of the urgent need for voluntary action to be strengthened with robust regulatory requirements for companies to identify human rights risks and prevent abuse.

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The HRDs Database contains over 3000 recorded instances of attacks by companies impacting the rights of Defenders.

Search our database of 200 lawsuits brought against companies to hold them to account for alleged human rights abuse.

Strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are one tactic used by business actors to stop people raising concerns about their practices. Explore our database of cases that bear the hallmarks of SLAPPs.