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Join the training: Assessing Labour and Human Rights Risks in the Supply Chain

This training supports organisations and individuals to better understand and implement labour and human rights standards, workplace compliance and supply chain due diligence. You will gain deep insights and practical tools to conduct social compliance assessments and review third-party audits. Course Highlights Learn what is involved in planning and conducting workplace compliance audits effectively. Gain … Read more

Towards dignity for all women in the workplace

Women’s Month is a chance to recenter women’s experiences and raise issues that matter to women. DIWA’s experience in the field indicate that women face distinct challenges while working in the palm oil, cacao, seafood, apparel, electronics, and other sectors.  While there are context-specific differences, issues affecting women workers can be broadly categorized as (1) … Read more

Spotlight on Ethical Recruitment

DIWA recognizes the importance of engaging critical stakeholders including recruitment agencies, who have significant roles to play in improving the lives of migrant workers. Our sister organization, The Fair Hiring Initiative (TFHI), has been quietly and persistently moving in the direction of ethical recruitment for over a decade.  In the past few months, there’s been … Read more

Businesses matter, and so do governments in achieving dignity in the workplace

The unprecedented policy shift in Washington to pause US foreign aid for 90 days may impact on the world’s poor and our global effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, including on critical issues affecting business such as child labour, forced labour and precarious work. The absence of critical aid can push already marginal communities … Read more

DIWA welcomes 2025: a critical year for HRDD

2024 was a milestone year for DIWA.  Some highlights include: There’s a lot on the horizon for 2025, another milestone year for us as we will celebrate our 20th anniversary in October. The past 20 years we have deepened the conversation on business and human rights.  We are known for thought leadership and real partnerships … Read more

DIWA: Apply ethical recruitment to irregular migrant & precariously employed workers

Daryll Delgado, DIWA Senior Director for Research and Stakeholder Engagement, welcomes participants to the organization’s Expanding the Frame forum held in Bangkok, Thailand on 11 November 2024. @Dignity in Work for All Dignity in Work for All (DIWA) calls for employers to consider the application of ethical recruitment principles to a vulnerable set of workers: … Read more

DIWA and Seafood Legacy Sign an MoU Technical Partnership on Socially Responsible Seafood to advocate robust Human Rights Due Diligence in Japan

DIWA and Seafood Legacy Sign an MoU Technical Partnership on Socially Responsible Seafood to advocate robust Human Rights Due Diligence in Japan TOKYO (Oct 9th, 2024)— Sustainable seafood organization Seafood Legacy(hereafter, SFL) and labour rights organization Dignity in Work for All (hereafter, DIWA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) during the Tokyo Sustainable Seafood Summit … Read more

DIWA @ the Roundtable for Sustainable Coconut

Dignity in Work for All highlighted the regulatory momentum for human rights due diligence in the recent Roundtable organized by the Sustainable Coconut Partnership (SCP). The Roundtable brought end-users, buyers, processors, farmer cooperatives, government and NGOs together to discuss issues faced by stakeholders including low productivity, low income, and low traceability in the upstream. A … Read more

World Day Against Trafficking

On this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, DIWA would like to highlight the central importance of industry and national standards on ethical recruitment. As an organization, we were among the first to link recruitment fees to debt bondage, forced labour and trafficking for labour exploitation.  We were also among the first to advocate for and … Read more

End Child Labour in Agriculture

On the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour, we would like to highlight the continuing need for supply chain due diligence and multistakeholder engagement to eliminate child labour.  Global estimates of child labour have actually increased as a result of recent crises including the COVID-19 pandemic which deepened poverty, forcing more children into … Read more