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How the Central Java Agreement Is Rewriting Rules on Workplace Safety in Garment Supply Chains

How the Central Java Agreement Is Rewriting Rules on Workplace Safety in Garment Supply Chains

The Central Java Gender Justice Agreement, signed in July 2024, is drawing global attention as a rare example of enforceable labour protections in garment supply chains. Covering more than 6,000 workers in two Indonesian factories, the union-led framework establishes binding safeguards against gender-based violence while placing greater accountability obligations on international apparel brands

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When lakes vanish, water tables dip

Puttenahalli lake

The term “water woes” has today become a cliché. But it’s not water supply issues or the associated woes that are disturbing. What is, is the fact that water has been disappearing right from under our noses. Bulk of the water supplied to Bangalore has to be carried from afar because there’s precious little groundwater left. Najeeb KM, regional director of the south-western zone of the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) offers a pointer as an explanation: “One of the prime reasons groundwater...

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The ISI mark: Stay away from it

ISI gameplan

How connotations change! Not-so-many years back the term ISI, to Indians, meant integrity, quality. Now to Indians in general and those who belong to the Northeast, particularly Assam, the very term is something to beware of. It is more than just an innocuous appellation - it is anathema. It is an organisation that threatens to destroy the political fabric of the region. Matters, as they are, are bad enough. Ethnic equations are always difficult to understand. But Pakistan's disruptionist agency...

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