Module 3
Global supply chains and gender-based violence in the world of work

a) References

Action Aid International. (2013). Women and the City II: combating violence against women and girls in urban spaces – the role of public services. http://www.actionaid.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/women_and_the_city.pdf

AWAJ Foundation and AMRF Society (2013) Workers’ Voice Report 2013. Insight into Life and Livelihood of Bangladesh’s RMG Workers. Available at: http://awaj.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Workers_Voice_Report_2013.pdf

Baird, M., McFerran, L., and Wright, I., (2014) An equality bargaining breakthrough: Paid domestic violence leave. Journal of Industrial Relations. April 2014 vol. 56 no. 2 190-207

Better Work. (Undated). Addressing sexual harassment in Jordan’s garment industry. Case Study. Available at: http://betterwork.org/global/wp-content/uploads/ILO-1402-SHP-training-Case-Study-WEB.pdf

Better Work. (Undated). Research Brief: Garment Factory Characteristics and Workplace Sexual Harassment. Available at: http://betterwork.org/global/wp-content/uploads/Research-Brief-Sexual-Harassment-LR-Rnd5-4.pdf

Better Work. (2013). Improving Business Outcomes by Understanding What Matters to Workers.  Available at: http://betterwork.org/global/wp-content/uploads/Research-Brief-What-Matters-to-Workers-LR.pdf

Better Work. (2015). Research Brief: Working Conditions, Productivity and Profitability. Available at: http://betterwork.org/global/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ILO-1513-Research-Brief-V3-2.pdf

Brown, et al. (2014). Are Sweatshops Profit-Maximizing? Answer: No. Evidence from Better Work Vietnam, Better Work Discussion Paper no.17

Council of Europe (2007) Gender Matters – Manual on gender-based violence affecting young people, Council of Europe, Budapest.

Cruz, A., & Klinger, S. (2011). Gender-based violence in the world of work: Overview and selected annotated bibliography by. International Labour Organization. Geneva: International Labour Organization.

ETI. (2005). Addressing labour practices on Kenyan flower farms. Report of ETI involvement 2002-2004. ETI, London.

European Economic and Social Committee. (2015) Towards an ILO standard against gender-based violence at work (own-initiative opinion). Rapporteur: Béatrice Ouin.

Fair Wear Foundation (2015) Setting up Anti-harassment committees and violence prevention systems: The experience of Fair Wear Foundation. Available at: http://www.fairwear.org/ul/cms/fck-uploaded/documents/policydocs/Settingupahcs2015.pdf

Institute of Development Studies. (2006). The ETI code of labour practice: Do workers really benefit? Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

ILO. (2009). General Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, Report III (Part 1A), 98th Session of the International Labour Conference. Geneva: International Labour Organization. Available at: http://www.ilo.org/ilc/ILCSessions/98thSession/ReportssubmittedtotheConference/WCMS_103484/lang--en/index.htm

ILO. (2012). Discrimination at work on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity: Results of the ILO’s PRIDE Project. Available at: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---gender/documents/briefingnote/wcms_368962.pdf

Lin, X, L., and Brown, D. (2014). Sexual harassment in the workplace: How does it affect firm performance and profits? Better Work Discussion Paper Series: No. 16

McCann, D. (2005) Sexual Harassment at Work: National and International Responses. Conditions of Work and Employment Series, No. 2, ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Programme, Geneva. Available at: http://www.ilo.org/travail/whatwedo/publications/WCMS_TRAVAIL_PUB_2/lang--en/index.htmMena, N., and Proan?o, S. (2005) Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: The Cut Flower Industry. Case Study Northern Sierra of Ecuador for the International Labor Rights Fund April 2005. Available at: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1488&context=globaldocs

Oxfam International. (2004). Trading Away Our Rights: Women working in global supply chains. https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/rights.pdf

Oxfam. (2012). Guide to Ending Violence Against Women http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/ending-violence-against-women-oxfam-guide-nov2012.pdf

Solotaroff, J., Land Pande, R. P. (2014) Violence against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia, DC: World Bank Group, 2014, p. xxxiv and p. 217. Available at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/20153.

United Nations. (1993). UN Declaration On The Elimination Of Violence Against Women. New York: United Nations. Available at: http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/48/a48r104.htm

United Nations. (2014). Report of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women. United Nations Economic and Social Council. New York: United Nations. Available at: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=E/CN.6/2015/6&Lang=E

Verite?. (2009). Advancing Women’s Rights and Social Responsibility: Capacity Building in Mexico. Available at: https://www.verite.org/sites/default/files/images/Verite%20Works_Capacity%20Building%20for%20Women%20in%20Mexico.pdf

Wagnera, KC., Yatesb, D., and Walcott, Q. (2012) Engaging men and women as allies: A workplace curriculum module to challenge gender norms about domestic violence, male bullying and workplace violence and encourage ally behavior. Work, 42 (2012) 107–113

Women Working Worldwide. (2011). Promoting Women Workers’ Rights in African Horticulture. Overview of research into workers’ conditions and industrial relations in the Ethiopian horticulture sectors. Available at: http://women-ww.org/documents/Ethiopia-executive-summary-final.pdf

Truskinovsky, Y., J. Rubin, and D. Brown (2013). Sexual Harassment in Garment Factories: Firm Structure, Organizational Culture and Incentive Systems, Better Work Discussion Paper No. 13, Geneva: Better Work. Available at: http://betterwork.org/global/?p=3834

 

b) Further resources

World Health Organization. (2013). Global and Regional Estimates of Violence against Women. Available at: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/85239/1/9789241564625_eng.pdf

UN Women Safe Cities Global Initiative. http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/~/media/44F28561B84548FE82E24E38E825ABEA.ashx

Fair Wear Foundation. (2013). Standing Firm against Factory Floor Harassment. Available at: http://www.fairwear.org/ul/cms/fck-uploaded/documents/fwfpublications_reports/StandingFirmReportFWF2013.pdf