Campaign #Against violence against textile workers FEMNET Board Member Dr. Gisela Burckhardt and FEMNET Managing Director Johanna Hergt visit SAVE in February 2019. © FEMNET India: Training in factories, promoting civil society, anchoring structures In India, unlike Bangladesh, there are legal requirements to set up complaint boards in the factories, but they are poorly implemented. In particular, we are working to change this in the spinning mills of South India, which are characterised by particularly serious forms of violence against young women and girls. For this we support our Partner organisation SAVE on the FEMNET project #Counterviolence against textile workers and within the framework of the ‘Tamil Nadu Alliance Initiative’ of the Textile Alliance. The ‘Alliance initiative Tamil Nadu“The aim is to systematically improve working conditions in the textile and clothing industry in Tamil Nadu, South India, and in particular to make the situation of women and girls in spinning mills more socially acceptable. Among other things, the training-of-trainers approach led by SAVE qualifies more than 80 trainers from 40 civil society organisations on the topics of workers’ rights and the setting up of conciliation and complaint committees. In order to comply with laws and improve working conditions, we need to take action at many levels. With our FEMNET campaign and project work #Violence against women textile workers We complement the activities of the Tamil Nadu Alliance Initiative: On the one hand, we support SAVE in networking with other NGOs and trade unions and on the other hand in representing the issue of violence against women more effectively vis-à-vis politics, business and the public by providing communication training and professional advice to the local team. back
