Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>According to the United Nations country office in Lesotho, the southern African kingdom is one of the most dangerous places to be a woman or a girl, with some of the highest rates of sexual and gender-based violence in the world.<\/p>\nIn addition, Lesotho is the second largest exporter of garments and textiles in Africa after Kenya, with the sector holding the position of being the largest private-sector employer in the country, with 80 per cent of garment and textile workers being women.<\/p>\n
It is against this backdrop that representatives of local, regional and global trade unions, civil society and various governments, including the Prime Minister of Lesotho, gathered in Maseru this July to highlight models and discuss strategies to eliminate gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the world of work. Lesotho\u2019s groundbreaking efforts in this field were a prominent focus of the meeting.<\/p>\n
The M-POWER High-Level Summit on Eradicating GBVH at Work in Southern Africa \u2013 organised by the US Department of Labor\u2019s Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment and Rights (M-POWER), the Lesotho Federation of Trade Unions and the Lesotho Labour Council \u2013 was held in Lesotho\u2019s capital city of Maseru on Thursday 27 July 2023.<\/p>\n
There, over 100 attendees from countries across southern Africa, Europe, Argentina and the United States heard how, in the space of less than five years, Lesotho has made serious strides towards eliminating GBVH in the workplace, beginning with a series of landmark collective agreements signed by three leading apparel brands, a major supplier of denim, and a coalition of labour unions and women\u2019s rights organisations.<\/p>\n
It began with an investigation carried out between 2017 and 2019 by the US-based labour rights monitoring organisation the Workers\u2019 Rights Consortium (WRC), which exposed widespread gender-based violence and sexual harassment at three garment factories run by the Taiwan-based Nien Hsing Textile Co.<\/p>\n
Ltd. , which supplies international brands Levi Strauss & Co. , Kontoor Brands (Lee and Wrangler Jeans), and The Children\u2019s Place. \u201c[. . . ] management often failed to take disciplinary action against offenders,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis tolerance of harassment by Nien Hsing created a culture of acceptance of gender-based violence and harassment in the factories and a fear of reporting among women workers.
\nIt continued: \u201cThe vulnerability of women workers at these factories to GBVH was exacerbated by Nien Hsing\u2019s suppression of workers\u2019 associational rights, which left employees unable to act collectively to raise concerns about, and demand an end to, these abuses.<\/p>\n
The WRC found that Nien Hsing denied employees the right to be represented by their chosen union; attempted to interfere with internal union matters; unilaterally terminated a memorandum of understanding with one of the unions representing workers at the factories; and engaged in acts of discrimination and retaliation against employees for exercising their associational rights.<\/p>\n
\u201d Using C190 to create a landmark agreement<\/p>\n
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, an estimated 10,000 people, mostly women, worked at five Nien Hsing textile facilities in Lesotho: Global Garments, C&Y, Nien Hsing International, Glory International and the Formosa Textile Company. Today, fewer than half that number of workers remain.<\/p>\n
According to Popoti Ntebe, a Nien Hsing garment worker who spoke at the July summit, workers used to wait at the gates every morning to be picked to work for the day, with the male supervisors previously only picking those they had a \u201cdesire to have sex with\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did that because they felt they had more authority. And we agreed just because we are desperate for work,\u201d Ntebe told attendees.<\/p>\n
She continued to say that supervisors would only give female workers daily or short-term contracts, and that their renewal would be contingent on continued sexual relationships with the factory supervisors and managers.<\/p>\n
This unlawful practise went unpunished for many years. After that they approached Levi\u2019s, Kontoor and The Children\u2019s Place with proposals to address GBVH at their Lesotho factories.<\/p>\n
The four agreements \u2013 which were signed by each brand and Nien Hsing in August 2019 \u2013 established an extensive anti-GBVH programme in the Nien Hsing factories, which include: a clear code of conduct outlining what constitutes unacceptable behaviour; independent reporting mechanisms to identify cases of GBVH and propose remedial action; disciplinary action against harassers including termination of contracts; protection against retaliation for workers that report violence or harassment; and GBVH awareness, training, and education programmes for all factory workers.<\/p>\n
Although they were inspired by the success of the Bangladesh Accord that followed the devastating collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in 2013, what sets the Lesotho agreements apart is that they were the first to incorporate International Labour Organization Convention 190 (C190), a landmark international standard aimed at eradicating gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work.<\/p>\n
And it is this incorporation of C190 that makes the Nien Hsing agreement binding. According to Abimourched, \u201cbrands have agreed to hold Nien Hsing accountable by withdrawing orders should Nien Hsing fail to comply with the findings of the monitoring body\u201d.<\/p>\n
Labour advocates say that this is groundbreaking and could serve as a model for other garment factories as well as other sectors. Lesotho\u2019s Commissioner of Labour, Mamohale Matsoso, says that her country\u2019s ratification of C190 as well as the Nien Hsing agreements show that \u201cLesotho is associated with ethical sourcing\u201d.<\/p>\n
She continues: \u201cIt was important that government showed through the ratification [of C190] that it does not embrace violence and harassment and that it is willing to commit through ratification of this instrument to eradicate gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace.
\nSpeakers at the M-POWER summit said that since the anti-GBVH programme implementation began in 2021, cases of violence and harassment at the Nien Hsing factories have declined.<\/p>\n
They are now calling on the agreement to be extended to other factories. Implementation Following delays caused by the Covid pandemic, the anti-GBVH training finally began in 2021. Up to November 2022, over 6,000 workers had attended two-day anti-GBVH training as part of the agreements.<\/p>\n
Matsie Moalosi is the education and awareness-raising facilitator at the National Clothing Textile and Allied Workers Union (NACTWU) in Lesotho, one of the unions that helped broker the agreement.<\/p>\n
At the M-POWER event in July, she told attendees that two facilitators work with a group of 25 participants at a time at the Nien Hsing factories. To ensure that the training is inclusive, Moalosi says they have engaged a Mandarin interpreter for Taiwanese and Chinese managers.<\/p>\n
The trainers have also worked hard to make sure that the training takes cultural differences into account and that it is inclusive of all workers. \u201cWe had to accommodate the LGBTQI+ community because they are the people who are most vulnerable in the workplace,\u201d she said, adding that the training also attempts to address the root causes of GBVH.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important to remove the root causes which cause gender-based violence to grow. It\u2019s about the abuse of power, the disrespect of human rights and gender equity,\u201d Moalosi says.<\/p>\n
Fully aware that training workers alone is not enough, the agreement has also created a toll-free hotline which allows GBVH victims to call and report violations of the code of conduct.<\/p>\n
According to a recent Solidarity Center report, between February 2021 and November 2022, the hotline received 404 calls and resulted in 81 investigations. Hotline manager Itumeleng Moerane of the Federation of Women Lawyers Lesotho (FIDA) says that confidentiality is a priority.<\/p>\n
If the caller [calls] reporting issues of gender violence or freedom association violence and they give their consent, the information line will pass their complaints to the investigative unit that is Workers\u2019 Rights Watch (WRW),\u201d Moerane said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great success\u201d<\/p>\n
National Clothing Textile and Allied Workers Union secretary general Samuel Mokhele says the negotiations that led to the establishment of this anti-GBVH programme were very challenging for all stakeholders because it was the first time that employers, brands, trade unions, and human rights bodies in Lesotho engaged in negotiations that took more than a year to conclude.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe agreements that were signed were very helpful because they were enforceable and binding.<\/p>\n
Workers started reporting cases to the information line which is free to call and workers at Nien Hsing are reporting their concerns to well-trained and professional counsellors who receive their calls,\u201d says Mokhele. He says that all reported cases of violence or harassment are referred to WRW.<\/p>\n
Between February 2021 and November 2022, WRW says it concluded investigation into 44 out of 81 individual reports, directing disciplinary action against harassers in numerous instances, and in some cases, the job termination of the harasser.<\/p>\n
While Makoro praises the initiative, it is only being implemented in three out of approximately 50 garment factories in the country. Nien Hsing worker Popoti Ntebe made a clarion call at the summit that the programme be extended to all factories in Lesotho.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is so beneficial to workers and we plead that it doesn\u2019t just end at the Nien Hsing group.<\/p>\n
This anti-GBVH programme should be extended to other factories because there are many workers who are still experiencing violence and harassment but they do not know where to go to report it,\u201d Ntebe said.<\/p>\n
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