What is Worker-driven Social Responsibility? This fact sheet answers that question by clearly outlining the problems that workers face – and showing how the Worker-Driven Social Responsibility model addresses the root causes of those issues. Availble in both English and Spanish.

The principles of the model remain the same, whether it’s being adapted to protect human rights in farm fields, on construction sites, in dairy barns, or in garment factories. Today’s long supply chains and layers of contractors and sub-contractors means that it is essential to hold the companies at the top responsible for the consequences of their purchasing practices. Worker-driven Social Responsibility does just that through binding agreements – and, as the evidence shows, it is working.

This fact sheet also includes citations that show how the model is working, not just to address and remediate human rights abuses, but to prevent them.

That’s a solution that workers, suppliers, buyers, investors, and leading human rights researchers can all get behind.

For a short explainer video and more in-depth discussion of the WSR model, see this page.