PUBLICATIONS
Not all of our research and reports can be shared due to confidentiality. However, here are some of the reports we have researched and authored.
Tracking Progress: Assessing Business Responses to Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in the Thai Seafood Industry (Humanity United and The Freedom Fund: 2019)
The report, commissioned and funded by Humanity United and The Freedom Fund, is based on interviews, focus group discussions and surveys with private sector representatives, civil society organizations (CSOs) and workers in Thailand. It includes an overview of the seafood capture and production sector, improvements made since the Humanity United / Freedom Fund report 'Assessing Government and Business Responses to forced labour and human trafficking' in 2016, and provides recommendations focusing on an improved business model to use sourcing decisions to advocate for workers’ rights and institutionalize change.
The report, commissioned and funded by Humanity United and The Freedom Fund, is based on interviews, focus group discussions and surveys with private sector representatives, civil society organizations (CSOs) and workers in Thailand. It includes an overview of the seafood capture and production sector, improvements made since the Humanity United / Freedom Fund report 'Assessing Government and Business Responses to forced labour and human trafficking' in 2016, and provides recommendations focusing on an improved business model to use sourcing decisions to advocate for workers’ rights and institutionalize change.
Indonesia's fisheries human rights certification system: assessment, commentary and recommendations (International Labour Organization: 2019)
This study provides an overview of the national framework for fisheries, looking at the design of Indonesia’s fisheries human rights certification system and identifies challenges in its implementation, followed by a contextualization of Indonesia’s fisheries human rights certification system as a private compliance initiative (PCI) within broader industry efforts to improve labour conditions, providing recommendations to the Government of Indonesia and other social partners to strengthen the enforcement of labour standards and human rights protection for fishers and other workers in Indonesia’s fishing and seafood industry.
This study provides an overview of the national framework for fisheries, looking at the design of Indonesia’s fisheries human rights certification system and identifies challenges in its implementation, followed by a contextualization of Indonesia’s fisheries human rights certification system as a private compliance initiative (PCI) within broader industry efforts to improve labour conditions, providing recommendations to the Government of Indonesia and other social partners to strengthen the enforcement of labour standards and human rights protection for fishers and other workers in Indonesia’s fishing and seafood industry.
Pakistan's hidden workers: wages and conditions of home-based workers and the informal economy (International Labour Organization: 2017)
This report sets out the findings of research carried out between May and December 2016 in two locations in Karachi looking at Pakistan’s informal economy and the supply chains existing within the textile and garment sector. It focuses on the deep value chain and describes a complex system of supply in the informal economy and provides information on comparable hours wage rates for the most common types of home-based work in the textile and garment sector.
This report sets out the findings of research carried out between May and December 2016 in two locations in Karachi looking at Pakistan’s informal economy and the supply chains existing within the textile and garment sector. It focuses on the deep value chain and describes a complex system of supply in the informal economy and provides information on comparable hours wage rates for the most common types of home-based work in the textile and garment sector.
Minimum wage setting, implementation and working conditions in the formal and informal sectors of the garment industry in Pakistan (International Labour Organization, 2016)
This report analyses the legal and policy frameworks and the implementation of minimum wages in Pakistan, with a particular focus on the textile and garment sectors. The report has been undertaken by the ILO’s Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains: A Programme for Action in Asia and the Garment Sector. It also contributed to and complements the ILO’s work on minimum wage setting across the region.
This report analyses the legal and policy frameworks and the implementation of minimum wages in Pakistan, with a particular focus on the textile and garment sectors. The report has been undertaken by the ILO’s Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains: A Programme for Action in Asia and the Garment Sector. It also contributed to and complements the ILO’s work on minimum wage setting across the region.
Community Resilience and Disaster-Related Displacement in South Asia (Norwegian Refugee Council: 2015)
This report examines the resilience of communities in South Asia to disasters and the displacement they cause. It considers their risk landscape and resilience capacity in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The research analyses the multidimensional risks communities face, their assets, and the institutional and legal frameworks in which they operate. It considers communities’ capacity to prevent displacement, their ability to mitigate protection risks during displacement and their options in terms of durable solutions. The report offers a resilience building framework that incorporates common principles, while retaining flexibility and adaptability to communities’ specific risk environments. It makes recommendations for improving it and preparing for the challenges of increasing risks, so preventing or at least reducing the impact of displacement.
The Norwegian Refugee Council commissioned this research to support the Nansen Initiative’s regional consultations in South Asia. The Nansen Initiative is a state-led, bottom-up consultative process. It aims to build a consensus on the development of a protection agenda to address the needs of people displaced across international borders by drought, flooding and other natural hazards, including those linked to climate change.
This report examines the resilience of communities in South Asia to disasters and the displacement they cause. It considers their risk landscape and resilience capacity in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The research analyses the multidimensional risks communities face, their assets, and the institutional and legal frameworks in which they operate. It considers communities’ capacity to prevent displacement, their ability to mitigate protection risks during displacement and their options in terms of durable solutions. The report offers a resilience building framework that incorporates common principles, while retaining flexibility and adaptability to communities’ specific risk environments. It makes recommendations for improving it and preparing for the challenges of increasing risks, so preventing or at least reducing the impact of displacement.
The Norwegian Refugee Council commissioned this research to support the Nansen Initiative’s regional consultations in South Asia. The Nansen Initiative is a state-led, bottom-up consultative process. It aims to build a consensus on the development of a protection agenda to address the needs of people displaced across international borders by drought, flooding and other natural hazards, including those linked to climate change.
Integrating Resilience in South Asia (Forced Migration Review: 2015)
Forced Migration Review published this summary article on how communities can strengthen their resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction measures. The article is also available in French, Spanish and Arabic.
Forced Migration Review published this summary article on how communities can strengthen their resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction measures. The article is also available in French, Spanish and Arabic.
Recent Trends of Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling to and from Pakistan (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: 2013)
This report was commissioned by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to better understand the emerging human trafficking and migrant smuggling trends in Pakistan. It profiles transnational migratory movements to and from Pakistan, and describes the different methods used by traffickers and smugglers. The report also provides detailed and critical analysis of the criminal justice response in Pakistan to migrant smuggling and human trafficking.
This report was commissioned by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to better understand the emerging human trafficking and migrant smuggling trends in Pakistan. It profiles transnational migratory movements to and from Pakistan, and describes the different methods used by traffickers and smugglers. The report also provides detailed and critical analysis of the criminal justice response in Pakistan to migrant smuggling and human trafficking.