Access to Remedy

There are significant challenges for victims of human rights abuses particularly migrant workers who are at risk of marginalisation in gaining access to effective remedies. Existing grievance mechanisms that are designed without worker input are often ineffective and inaccessible, further leaving workers without meaningful remedies.

Furthermore, power imbalances between workers and employers leave workers vulnerable to exploitation and retaliation if they attempt to report abuses. These barriers reinforce a culture of impunity that allows exploitation to continue unchecked.

We broaden the scope of civil society organisations and worker groups pursuing interventions against forced labour to use the business and human rights laws and mechanisms to access remedy. Our efforts seek to equip civil society groups with the knowledge, resources and tools needed to pursue accountability and remedy.

o  Through our ecosystem program, we developed training programs focusing on a range of legal, non-legal and advocacy strategies, investigation techniques, supply chain investigations, negotiation skills to improve access to remedy for victims of business-related human rights.

o  We facilitate strategic connections between regional civil society groups and international experts to undertake transnational corporate accountability strategies to pursue remedies for human rights violations in global supply chains.

o   We built Remedy Route, an online platform that helps migrant workers from Indonesia and the Philippines and their advocates to navigate legal pathways to remedies.