CEC has been building an online repository on the contemporary history, struggles, and experiences of labour in Delhi-NCR, in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

CEC prioritizes creating and maintaining sustainable livelihood opportunities for vulnerable communities, enhancing their social and economic well-being, and fostering resilient, thriving societies.

Home-based workers constitute a huge workforce at the end of the supply chain that is kept invisible by design, to ensure minimum responsibility and maximum profit for the supply chain leaders.

Celebrating International Tea Day in the time of Covid 19: Lessons and Challenges.

Social security in India has been seen as an economic, social and cultural entitlement and not as a right. In fact the provision of social security for some has become the justification for denial to many.

Small Tea Grower (STG) segment accounts for almost 36% of the total tea production (2014) in India. For most, tea is the only source of livelihood. The Tea Board of India defines a Small Tea Grower as a person who has a tea cultiv

European Development Days show case Europe's Commitment to build a sustainable and fair world.

A drastic increase in export of manufacturing goods during 1990s made India internationally known as a base for global commodity chains. The sector has mostly migrant workers living in closed community that can't be approached.

So far India has no formal policy on international migration. There are only limited schemes and programmes to safeguard the interests of migrant workers.The only law which is applicable, is the Indian Emigration Act of 1983.

According to The Hindu Survey (1993), every year 1.8 lakh workers die and 11 crore get injured in occupational accidents. In India, occupational risks are maximum and compensation minimum

A market-led economy pushes for labour flexibility upsetting traditional employer-employee equations and segmenting labour into formal and informal. The informal workers are deprived of basic labour rights and rendered expendable.