Aruna Kashyap
Aruna Kashyap is the associate director in the Economic Justice and Rights Division where her work focuses on corporate accountability and human rights, especially in global supply chains. Before joining the Economic Justice and Rights Division, she worked with the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch.
Her research and advocacy for the organization has spanned different countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. It has covered diverse topics, ranging from labor rights, social protection, violence against women, and access to health care. She has spearheaded international and regional advocacy for new binding and non-binding international standards governing corporations in the European Union, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the International Labour Organization.
As a lawyer, she has a background in strategic litigation on economic, social, and cultural rights, commercial contracting, and experience with criminal, contractual and tort law frameworks. She sits on the board of Transparentem. Previously, she litigated in India and got her law degree at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore.
Articles Authored
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December 20, 2017
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December 11, 2017
Tackling Sexual Harassment in the Garment Industry
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October 31, 2017
KiK Fails to Turn a New Page on Ethical Business
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September 21, 2017
Bangladesh Textile Mill Burns, Yet Again
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May 11, 2017
Bangladesh Accord: New phase should protect unions
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April 27, 2017
Hope for Garment Workers with European Parliament’s Vote
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April 24, 2017
A Message to Global Brands from a Rana Plaza Survivor
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October 24, 2016
The Secret Underbelly of the Cambodian Garment Industry
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September 14, 2016
Fatal Factory Fire in Bangladesh is Déjà Vu
Other Writing
Reports Authored
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Bangladesh: Social Audits Shortchange Workers
Shahidul Islam’s Killing Underscores Heightened Risks for Independent Unions
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“Obsessed with Audit Tools, Missing the Goal”
Why Social Audits Can’t Fix Labor Rights Abuses in Global Supply Chains
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“Whoever Finds the Vaccine Must Share It”
Strengthening Human Rights and Transparency Around Covid-19 Vaccines
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“Paying for a Bus Ticket and Expecting to Fly”
How Apparel Brand Purchasing Practices Drive Labor Abuses
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“Will I Get My Dues … Before I Die?”
Harm to Women from Bangladesh’s Discriminatory Laws on Marriage, Separation, and Divorce
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Dignity on Trial
India’s Need for Sound Standards for Conducting and Interpreting Forensic Examinations of Rape Survivors
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“Being Neutral is Our Biggest Crime”
Government, Vigilante, and Naxalite Abuses in India’s Chhattisgarh State