Global Rights Compliance (GRC) has released a new report, “Strengthening Human Rights Due Diligence Through Community-Based Monitoring: Insights from a Four-Year Programme in Pakistan,” examining how community-based monitoring (CBM) in Pakistan’s garment and textile sector can help companies identify labour/human rights risks earlier, strengthen stakeholder engagement, and improve access to remedy.
Read the full report here.
The findings in this report draw on evidence generated through GRC’s programme Promoting and Advancing International Labor Rights in Pakistan’s garment and textile sector, implemented in partnership with Labour Behind the Label (LBL) and local organisations including the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER), the National Trade Union Federation (NTUF), the Home-Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF), the Labour Education Foundation (LEF), which operate the programme’s legal aid centres in Pakistan.
Since 2022, GRC and its partners have developed a CBM model focused on labour rights in Pakistan’s garment sector. Through 22 legal aid centres across Sindh and Punjab, trained community monitors/paralegals provide workers with trusted spaces to report concerns and access free legal support, while complaints from Karachi, Lahore, and Faisalabad are documented through MyVox, GRC’s labour rights complaints documentation and monitoring tool.
As of 30 June 2026, MyVox had recorded 7,517 complaints, including 6,943 relating to the garment sector, identifying a total of 16,414 labour rights violations. Reported issues include wage-related violations, unfair dismissals, contracting irregularities, excessive overtime, and workplace harassment.
The findings show how continuous, rights-holder-informed monitoring can help uncover risks that may remain hidden through conventional mechanisms, identify systemic patterns, and support earlier intervention. With free legal support from local paralegals, 83.5% of cases reported through MyVox had progressed to a remediation channel by 30 June 2026.
The report concludes that scaling CBM will require stronger integration into companies’ human rights and environmental due diligence processes, trusted local partnerships, cross-sector collaboration, and predictable long-term financing. In doing so, CBM has the potential to help strengthen risk identification, stakeholder engagement, and access to remedy across global supply chains.