Labor Rights

Surge in Garment Industry Transparency: Laws Needed to Ensure Companies Adopt Human Rights Practices

(New York, December 18, 2019) – Clothing and footwear brands and retailers have dramatically increased their disclosure of information about their supply chains in the past three years, a coalition of unions, human rights groups, and labor rights advocates said in a joint report released today. In 2016, the coalition created the Transparency Pledge, a minimum standard of supply chain transparency that enables advocates, workers, and consumers to find out where a brand’s products are made.

ICAR and Co-signers Submit Letter to Senate Appropriations Labor Subcommittee Calling for Continued Funding for Bureau of International Labor Affairs’ Grant Programs

Washington, D.C. (June 9, 2017) – ICAR, International Labor Rights Forum, Free the Slaves, and Verité submitted a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies calling for continued funding for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs’ grant programs.