Equidem Research and Consulting offers leading human rights and labour rights expertise for business, government and not-for-profits.
Equidem provides a range of expert services tailored to our partners’ needs and requirements. Our work falls within three broad categories: investigations, advice and training.
Investigations: We investigate respect for human rights and labour rights standards by states and multi-national businesses and their contract and supply chains using our unrivalled network of investigators to directly access migrant worker communities in the Middle East and Asia. Equidem can carry out ‘360 degree’ investigations across the entire cycle of a migrant worker’s...
Equidem is managed and led by an executive director. It has a team of experts each of whom holds advanced degrees and have decades of experience carrying out human rights investigations in the field, analysing findings against international and national human rights and labour rights standards, and developing concrete, practical recommendations on how to address identified problems. We work in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe with United Nations agencies and other international non-government organisations (INGOs), investors and multi-national business, civil society and trade union groups.
At the heart of our work is our unrivalled network of field investigators who are based in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Our team members are fluent in written and spoken Arabic, Amharic, Bangla, Cantonese, Dari, English, Hindi, Malayalam, Mandarin, Nepali, Punjabi, Sinhala, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Urdu, among others.
We emphasize a sound grasp of the most current debates in our respective areas, and designing innovative responses that are based on extensive community and stakeholder consultations, particularly international experts and grassroots civil society (see Partners).
Mustafa Qadri is the Founder and Executive Director of Equidem Research and Consulting, managing all our projects and partner relationships. He is a human rights research and advocacy expert with 20 years of...
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Equidem Research and Consulting is looking for an Operations Administrator to join the team in an exciting time of organizational growth. The role requires a multi-skilled individual with experience in operations administration as well as a...
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Equidem Executive Director, Mustafa Qadri will speak on 26 October 2021 at the Human Rights Due Diligence and Systemic Inequalities conference organised by the
Monday, 25 October 2021
This year, Equidem, India Director, Namrata Raju will be speaking at the Middle East & North...