The UN Commission on the Status of Women is occurring in New York March 10-21. This side session will take place in person in New York on March 17th, at 2:30 pm ET. It will introduce a new binding supply chain agreement, the Central Java Gender Justice Agreement, establishing a union-led program to prevent and eliminate gender-based violence and harassment at two factories in Indonesia owned by the Korean multinational Ontide, and covering 6,250 mainly women workers. The Agreement, signed among the four unions, Ontide, and the WRC, AFWA, and GLJ, is complemented by a commitment from sportswear brand Fanatics to support the program and hold Ontide accountable to fulfill its obligations under the agreement. The Central Java Agreement incorporates key definitions and elements from the ILO Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment in the world of work, as well as protections for freedom of association and from retaliation. 

The session will include interviews with women workers employed at the Ontide factories, union leaders, and a panel discussion with representatives from GLJ, AFWA, and the WRC (See the attached flyer for event details).

Register here for the NGO forum at CSW; this step is required to attend all parallel sessions. 

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