Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights

Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights
Formation1980
TypeNGO
PurposeHuman and labor rights
HeadquartersPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Region served
Central America, Bangladesh, Jordan, China, India, Mexico, Japan, United States
Executive Director
Charles Kernaghan
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The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, formerly known as the National Labor Committee (until 2011), was a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) that investigates human and labor rights abuses committed by large multinational corporations producing goods in the developing world. The Institute was headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with offices in Bangladesh and Central America. Charles Kernaghan served as the Executive Director. The Institute published investigations with the goal of influencing public opinion and corporate policy. It is widely considered to be the organization that began the late-20th-century anti-sweatshop movement in America.[1]

The organization suspended operations as of June 2017.[2]

  1. ^ Kitty Krupat (1997). "From War Zone to Free Trade Zone". In Andrew Ross (ed.). No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers. Verso. pp. 51–78. ISBN 1859841724.
  2. ^ "Update on the Institute". Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights. Archived from the original on April 27, 2018. Retrieved February 11, 2018.