Preventing Violence and Harassment at Work

Our work

CARE is helping the garment industry lead the way in ending workplace harassment. We partner with companies that are ready to take action and offer the tools and support they need.

Here’s what we’re doing:

• Setting clear standards: With Better Factories Cambodia, we developed standardized guidelines that help factories prevent and respond to harassment at every level of the garment supply chain.
• The STOP program: This program supported brands and factories in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam improve their workplace policies and responses to harassment.
• Industry events: We co-hosted with Better Work and organized a Learning Summit to share success stories and document examples of best practice.
• Supporting women’s leadership: We help women raise their voices and take action against the increase in abuse during the pandemic.
• Working with unions: We partner with unions to strengthen their ability to negotiate and advocate for safer workplaces.
• Shaping better laws: Our advocacy has helped influence both global and national laws to prevent workplace violence and support workers’ rights.
• Sharing tools: We work with partners like Business Fights Poverty to offer practical resources that help companies prevent violence against women and girls at work.

Our impact

CARE’s work is helping shift industry norms—and the results are clear. From factory floors to national policy, change is happening.

• Check out our report,What works? Reducing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Rapid Review of Evidence, to learn more about the issue.
• Read about the ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment—and how CARE helped make it happen.
• Watch our video to see the impact of CARE’s sexual harassment prevention work:

By working together, we’re making sure women’s voices are heard—and that safer workplaces become the standard everywhere.