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Human Rights Institute Lunch Talk: Humanitarian Investments?: Workers' Rights for Refugees in Jordan and Ethiopia

April 11, 2019
12:10 PM - 1:10 AM
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Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102B

Governments, including the EU, have recently tried to curb the flow of asylum-seekers into the Global North by investing in job creation in the less developed countries that host the majority of the world's refugees. Looking at such investments in the garment industry in Jordan and Ethiopia as a case study, this talk will discuss how these "humanitarian" efforts have faltered on the ground due to low wages and high rates of workers' rights violations. To respond to such a challenge, the talk will explore different approaches to advancing labor rights in global supply chains, and highlight the lessons that can be drawn from such approaches to advance the human rights of refugees in host countries.