COMMENTARIES
2026, June 4. Op-Ed. Enforceable Brand Agreements Raise the Bar for Corporate Compliance. Sourcing Journal.
2025, November 19. Blog. Centering Rightsholders: Lessons on Effective Grievance Mechanisms from the UN RBHR Asia-Pacific Forum. Article One.
2025, October 22. Commentary. Garment worker tragedies: we need to move beyond auditing and address the root cause. Institute for Human Rights and Business
2025, May 27. Blog. The Future of Responsible Supply Chains. Article One.
2025, May 2. Commentary. Unprecedented tariffs call on us to reimagine more equitable supply chains. Institute for Human Rights and Business
2025, February 13. Blog. Best Practices for Meaningful and Sustainable Stakeholder Engagement. Article One.
2024, March 6. Blog. Support worker organizing, and the rest will follow: Reflections from the OECD Forum. Article One.
2024, January 19. Op-ed. Why Top Apparel Brands Fall Short in Supplier Partnerships. Supply Chain Dive.
2023, December 6. Blog. Achieving a Living Wage for Garment Workers Needs Price Squeezing to Stop. Institute for Human Rights and Business.
2023, November 1. Blog. The RBA’s Annual Conference Highlighted the Three C’s When Thinking About the Supply Chain of the Future. Article One.
2023, July 6. Blog. All Voices Need to be Heard at the Global Fashion Summit. Article One.
2023, April 24. Podcast. (With Salil Tripathi). What Has the Rana Plaza Disaster Taught Us? Institute for Human Rights and Business
2023, April 24. Briefing Paper. (With Salil Tripathi). Rana Plaza 10 Years On: Lessons for Human Rights and Business. Institute for Human Rights and Business
2021, April 24, Op-ed. “Beyond the Accord” The Daily Star
2020, October 14, Op-ed. “Façade of workers’ safety beginning to show cracks during the pandemic.” The Daily Star
2020, September 21. Interview. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena on Labor Rights in Bangladesh. Asia Experts Forum
2020, April 24, Commentary. Bangladesh’s Garment Industry Unraveling. East Asia Forum.
2019, October 23. Commentary. Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia - Bangladesh after Rana Plaza, Institute for Human Rights and Business.
2018, December 27. Blog post. Understanding the role of ‘place’ when addressing labour rights in global supply chains, Tata Institute for Social Sciences. Reimagining Cities in the Global South.
2018, April 21. Commentary. Beyond Third-party Monitoring: Post-Rana Plaza Interventions, vol lIiI no 16, Economic & Political Weekly
2017, December 10. Podcast. On Labor & Worker Safety. Part of a mini-series dedicated to the theme of “Realising Access to Effective Remedy”, as part of the Institute for Human Rights and Business' annual Top 10 Business & Human Rights issues for 2018.
(With Sarah Labowitz). 2015, August 10. Op-ed. Monitoring working conditions at factories won’t stop future tragedies, The Globe And Mail.
2014, August 26. Blog post. Global Women’s Leadership Initiative.
2014, August 11. Blog post. America’s Trade Policy.
2014, March 15. Commentary. Thinking about the 21st Century Indian City, vol XLIX no. 11, Economic & Political Weekly
2012, Op-ed. American Tariffs, Bangladeshi Deaths. The New York Times.
2010. Op-ed. Bangladesh’s Case for Tariff Break from the U.S. The Daily Star
(with Veronique Salze-Lozac’h). 2008. In Bangladesh: The Garment Sector Soars. The Asia Foundation
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
(2026). “Collaboration or Continued Compliance? The Reality of Partnerships between Global Brands and their Suppliers in the Apparel Industry and the Impact on Labor.” In Work, Labor, and Governance in Global Supply Chains. Edited by Chunyun Li, Mark Anner, and Xiangmin (Helen) Liu. Champaign, IL: Labor and Employment Relations Association, pp. 47-69.
(2024). “The Garment Industry Under COVID-19: Lessons from the Rana Plaza Disaster on How we Understand Worker Safety,” in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies special edition, "Ties that Bind: Women’s Textile Labor in Contemporary South Asia"
(2022). “Developing Country Responses to Protecting Labor Standards Under Globalization: What Explains the Difference?” in Handbook on Globalization and Labour Standards. Kimberly Elliot (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing.
(With Salil Tripathi and Harpreet Kaur, 2021). “How the Pandemic has Impacted the Various Layers of the Global Garment Supply Chain,” in Covid-19 and Human Rights (Morten Kjaerum, Martha F. Davis, and Amanda Lyons, eds.),Oxon: Routledge/ Taylor and Francis Group. Featured in Book Authority’s Top 100 List.
REPORTS AND RESEARCH BRIEFS
(with Silvia Fregoni). May 2026. The Non-Negotiables: CSDDD and the Case for Building Trust Now. Policy Brief. Berkeley Center for Law and Business.
(with Nancy Reyes Mullins and Salil Tripathi). April 2021. The Weakest Link in the Supply Chain- How the Pandemic is Affecting Bangladesh’s Garment Workers. Report. Institute for Human Rights and Business.
(With Atonu Rabbani and Md Faizul Islam). September, 2020. The Impact of Covid-19 on the Lives of Workers in the Bangladesh Garment Industry. Research Brief. Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Brac University.
June 2019. Contributor to: Business and human rights defenders: exploring best practice and finding common ground. (Wilton Park and the Institute for Human Rights and Business, Sussex, UK. Business and Human Rights Defenders: Exploring Best Practice and Finding Common Ground).
January, April 2019. Contributor to: Technology Solutions for Advancing Human Rights in Global Supply Chains (Human Rights and Business Initiative, UC Berkeley. Using Technology to Address Human Rights in Global Supply Chains).
July 2018. Contributor to: Special Economic Zones, Structural Transformation and Inclusive Growth in the Context of China’s Expanding Global Influence: Report and Findings of a Pilot Project (Transnational Law Institute Workshop, Kings College, London, UK).
(With Veronique Salze-Lozac’h). 2010. Competitiveness in the Garment and Textiles Industry: Creating a Supportive Environment, A Case Study of Bangladesh. Occasional Paper, No. 1, San Francisco, CA: The Asia Foundation.
