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Removing barriers to education to prevent child labor

Children at a GoodWeave-supported Motivation and Learning Camp in Bhadohi, India. Photo by Selvaprakash Lakshmanan.

For families struggling to meet basic needs, the cost of sending children to school can be difficult to afford, while economic pressures may also push children into ...

Nepal cannot bear the growing costs of climate change alone

Mountainous terrain along a rural road in Nepal. Photo by GoodWeave International

 

On Wednesday, August 26, catastrophic flash floods struck northern Nepal along the Tibet border following a massive glacier collapse high in the Himalayas. The resulting surge of water, ice, rock, and ...

Building pathways to decent work for adolescents in Bangladesh

Participants take part in a tailoring course through GoodWeave’s Technical Vocational Training program in Bangladesh. Photo by GoodWeave International.

For vulnerable adolescents in Bangladesh, poverty can contribute to leaving school early and limit opportunities to pursue safe...

Protecting young workers in the garment sector

A group of young women workers attend an awareness session in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

Young workers ages 14 to 17 can be particularly vulnerable because of limited work experience and training, limited awareness of their rights, economic necessity, and a lack of bargaining power. ...

Supporting access to fair grievance mechanisms in Bangladesh’s RMG sector

Watch the GoodWeave-sponsored short film produced by Awaj featuring a woman worker describing what access to remedy meant for her.
 

An effective grievance mechanism can help promptly detect mistreatment and provide effective and timely remedy. But it will only work if workers...

GoodWeave’s raffle returns with two luxury rugs from NIBA Designs and Deirdre Dyson

WASHINGTON, DC, USA, June 11, 2026 — GoodWeave International has partnered with NIBA Designs and Deirdre Dyson for its annual rug raffle, giving participants the opportunity to bring home one of two luxury, handmade rugs. Opening June 11 ahead of World Day Against Child Labor, this year’s...

Behind the Label: A Vision for Bangladesh’s RMG supply chains

Garment workers participate in a training session on workplace rights led by Awaj Foundation, a local partner of GoodWeave in Bangladesh.
 

Testimony

Ms. A. Akter, an employee of an RMG factory in Ashulia, was unlawfully dismissed from work in order to deny her ma...

Honoring the life and legacy of Rev. Pharis J. Harvey

Photo credit: Global Labor Justice

In our earliest days, he supported and mentored co-founders Kailash Satyarthi and Nina Smith in incubating RugMark (now GoodWeave) at the International Labor Rights Fund (now Global Labor Justice). As a supremely dedicated board member, Pharis he...

Can Systemic Change in Nepal Yield Results?

So, on September 8, 2025, when the Gen-Z movement toppled the government following protests against corruption, most people were in disbelief and awe. Do we finally get to shed the weight of old political hegemony and step into the light? The answer is maybe.

The culmination of the youth-l...

RECORDING: Weaving Hope Virtual Premiere

Event date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Produced in collaboration with the Video Consortium and supported by the Skoll Foundation, the film is part of the 2025 Solutions Storytelling Project: Asia fellowship.

The 10-minute film follows Seema, a field facilitator in rural Rajas...


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