Kevin Hyland OBE, the United Kingdom’s first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner: “This model, called ‘Worker-Driven Social Responsibility’, is rightly gaining much attention from many sectors.”
The Fair Food Program continues to accumulate accolades for its unparalleled success in protecting workers’ human rights in corporate supply chains.
In recent weeks, two leading international voices on business and human rights made their admiration for the Fair Food Program known in articles dedicated to spotlighting programs “showing great promise” in fighting sexual violence and modern-day slavery.
Shift, the New York-based NGO “founded as a non-profit organization just days after the endorsement of the Guiding Principles [on Business and Human Rights] at the UN to help deliver on their promise,” published a major report last month titled “The Human Rights Opportunity: 15 real-life cases of how business is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals by putting people first.” Shift describes the purpose of the report in its introduction, which is directed at business leaders heading up their companies’ social responsibility efforts:
“The Human Rights Opportunity” offers 15 practical examples of how companies and multi-stakeholder initiatives are aiming to address human rights impacts and, at the same time, are showing great promise in delivering significant contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Through this report, we seek to provide inspiration for how companies can harness innovation, leadership, influence and partnerships to tackle negative impacts in ways that maximize positive outcomes for people, in line with the SDGs.
The report places the Fair Food Program within the “issue area” of Gender Equality:
The challenge
The #MeToo and Time’s Up movements continue to make headlines around the world every day. As these and other campaign efforts have made clear over many decades, some level of gender discrimination, sexual harassment, abuse and/or violence in the workplace is pervasive across industries and geographies.
The agriculture sector in the United States is no exception. In fact, women farmworkers face some of the worst gender inequality conditions in the country – it is estimated that 80% of farmworkers who are women are sexually harassed or assaulted in the course of their work...
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