{"id":43140,"date":"2022-04-01T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T06:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/apr\/01\/hm-pledges-to-end-shopfloor-sexual-violence-in-india-after-worker-killed-jeyasre-kathiravel"},"modified":"2022-04-01T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T06:45:14","slug":"hm-pledges-to-end-shopfloor-sexual-violence-in-india-after-worker-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43140","title":{"rendered":"H&amp;M pledges to end shopfloor sexual violence in India after worker killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Landmark agreement to protect garment workers from violence follows last year\u2019s murder of Jeyasre Kathiravel, a Dalit woman<\/p>\n<p>H&amp;M has signed a legally binding agreement with one of its largest Indian clothing suppliers that pledges to end sexual violence and harassment against women on the factory floor after the murder of a young garment worker by her supervisor last year.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2021, Jeyasre Kathiravel, a 20-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/16\/dalits-bear-brunt-of-indias-endemic-sexual-violence-crisis\">Dalit woman<\/a>, was found dead on farmland near her family home after finishing a shift at Natchi Apparel, a factory making clothes for H&amp;M in Kaithian Kottai, Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/apr\/01\/hm-pledges-to-end-shopfloor-sexual-violence-in-india-after-worker-killed-jeyasre-kathiravel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landmark agreement to protect garment workers from violence follows last year\u2019s murder of Jeyasre Kathiravel, a Dalit womanH&amp;M has signed a legally binding agreement with one of its largest Indian clothing suppliers that pledges to end sexual viole&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[576,1453,59,1617,62,78,440,79,61,1478,281,2428,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-garment-workers","category-global-development","category-hm","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-sexual-violence","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-unions","category-women","category-workers-rights","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43160,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140\/revisions\/43160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}