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To Eliminate Gender Based Violence and Harassment

Dindigul Agreement

This is GLI’s year two assessment of the processes and outcomes of an innovative agreement regarding freedom of association and the elimination of gender based violence at a South Indian apparel factory that could be a model for other factories around the world.

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Measuring Supply Chain Due Diligence

Labor Outcomes Metrics

Read about the Global Labor Institute's new quantitative metrics that measure labor outcomes—actual impacts for workers.

Workers in Bangladesh
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Higher Ground? Fashion’s Climate Breakdown

Impacts of climate change on global apparel production

In partnership with Schroders, we report the impacts of climate change on global apparel production. In our first report, we track climate change impacts at the global, national, and factory levels. We map fashion's climate vulnerabilities across production centers, and estimate future economic damages from extreme heat and flooding. Our second report examines company-level climate risk, cost, and financing for adaption and just resilience.

Textile workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Sourcing Journal: 'Why Fashion’s Business As Usual ‘Won’t Cut It Anymore’ in Age of Climate Breakdown'

Sourcing Journal
GLI Executive Director Jason Judd is quoted extensively in this piece highlighting our recent "Hot Air" report, where he talks about the "nerdy" nature of our research, as well as high heat, flooding and adaptation efforts.
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Sourcing Journal: 'Why Fashion’s Business As Usual ‘Won’t Cut It Anymore’ in Age of Climate Breakdown'

Hot Air: How will fashion adapt to accelerating climate change?

This report looks at 23 global apparel production centers and analyzes how heat and flooding have already changed and gotten worse over the past two decades, and recommends changes and adaptations for the already-supercharged climate.
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Hot Air: How will fashion adapt to accelerating climate change?

Cornell GLI Policy Brief: Minimum wage-setting in Bangladesh's apparel industry

This policy brief aimed at policymakers, unions, brands and employers discusses Bangladesh's minimum wage setting system and the impact on the workforce and Bangladesh's global competitiveness.
Bangladesh Garment Workers
Cornell GLI Policy Brief: Minimum wage-setting in Bangladesh's apparel industry

EU Forced Labour Regulations: Visiting Fellow Samira Rafaela Responds to Its Passage

"“This is a proud moment for us all and a big step forward in the fight for global human rights. The Forced Labor Regulation is an ambitious, human-rights-focused law that sets a new standard in the fight against forced labor worldwide."
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EU Forced Labour Regulations: Visiting Fellow Samira Rafaela Responds to Its Passage

Visiting Fellow Samira Rafaela in the International Labor Rights Case Law Journal

She describes the ways this new law can be used to work to eradicate forced labor in Turkmenistan and its larger place in the new emerging global labor order.
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Visiting Fellow Samira Rafaela in the International Labor Rights Case Law Journal

Higher Ground? Climate change and apparel production

This brief for apparel brands and manufacturers—based on analyses by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute and U.K.-based fund manager Schroders—looks into fashion’s near future to calculate the possible economic damage caused by high heat, rising humidity, and disruptive flooding.
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Higher Ground? Climate change and apparel production

Change or Groundhog Day? What new research tells us about what works in global labor governance

2024 GLI Conference Highlights

Samira Rafaela
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