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 @ 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