© FEMNET India: Training in factories, promoting civil society, anchoring structures In India, unlike Bangladesh, there are legal provisions for setting up complaint committees in factories, but they are insufficiently implemented. The spinning mills of southern India are characterised by particularly serious forms of violence against young women and girls. Therefore, we support our partner organisation SAVE to work for change, particularly to set up complaint mechanisms in the spinning mills through the FEMNET project #Against Violence, within the framework of the "Alliance Initiative Tamil Nadu" of the Textiles Partnership. Read more …
© FEMNET Bangladesh: empowering women, creating focal points and laws Our partner organisation BCWS is working resolutely towards the establishment of factory committees as focal points for women. In that way, workers can discuss their violent experiences in dialogue with each other and with the management. Clear responsibilities to address and resolve gender-based violence is key. Women are informed about their rights and supported to be able to help themselves. Read more …