News overview
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December 18, 2024
On International Migrants Day, justifications for migrant worker abuse in Nike’s supply chain put migrant rights under threat
Shortly before today’s International Migrants Day, a new report about a case of wage theft at the Hong Seng Knitting factory in Thailand gives the company’s buyer, Nike, new excuses to ignore the rights of the factory’s mostly Burmese migrant workforce. Labour activists criticise Nike for investing in and hiding behind ever more reports and expensive consultants instead of ensuring workers in their supply chain are paid what they are owed. They furthermore criticise the Fair Labor Association, which issued the report, for justifying blatant worker rights violations.
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December 11, 2024
The Clean Clothes Campaign urges EU Commission not to focus on deregulation at the expenses of workers, human rights and the environment
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is deeply worried by the European Commission’s announcement of its intention to simplify recently introduced rules on corporate sustainability, in particular the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), and urges Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the College of Commissioners not to backtrack on landmark legislation.
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November 12, 2024
Nine NGOs present CSDDD Transposition Guide
Today, Clean Clothes Campaign together with eight other NGOS, presents a transposition guide on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
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October 17, 2024
Activists disrupt Zara’s European distribution centre on the first day of COP29, chanting “No climate justice without garment workers’ rights!”
Anti-fast fashion activists from Clean Clothes Campaign and XR Fashion Action target Inditex’s (Zara) distribution centre in Lelystad, The Netherlands to call out the brands’ failure to protect the rights of garment workers in Bangladesh.
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October 17, 2024
Fashion brands condemned over mass arrest warrants issued against workers in Bangladesh
Fashion brands including H&M and Zara are facing criticism over their lack of action to protect workers’ basic rights in Bangladesh.
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October 17, 2024
After years of pressure Levi’s commits to protecting workers in Pakistan
Denim giant Levi’s Strauss has signed a binding agreement to ensure that garment workers making its jeans in Pakistan will finally be able to go to work without having to fear for their lives. The Clean Clothes Campaign network welcomes the brand’s decision to join this binding and independent mechanism to protect workers in Pakistan, and is grateful to the many unions and campaigners that have worked with us to make this possible. We also encourage Levi’s to soon take the same decision for workers in Bangladesh.
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September 25, 2024
Luxury brands, cheap practices: fired garment workers abandoned by leading fashion houses
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September 23, 2024
Calling for Living Wage Action Day on 25 September
The Clean Clothes Campaign network will join forces with partners and allies worldwide to mark for the first time Living Wage Action Day on 25 September 2024. Our main aim is to initiate a global movement dedicated to ensuring all workers receive a wage that meets their basic needs: a living wage!
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September 11, 2024
Statement on the twelfth anniversary of the Ali Enterprises fire
Twelve years ago, on 11 September 2012, over 250 people were killed in the garment industry’s most deadly factory fire ever. The Ali Enterprises factory in Karachi, Pakistan, burned to the ground with many workers trapped inside. On this day we commemorate all workers who didn’t survive and our thoughts are with all grieving families. Our commitment is to ensure this can never happen again.
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September 9, 2024
Nike faces unprecedented annual meeting revolt over failure to respect worker rights
Ahead of tomorrow’s Nike annual meeting, CEO John Donahoe is faced with major investors defying his recommendation to ignore worker rights concerns. Instead ever more investors are coming out in force to demand that the sportswear giant fixes its failure to accurately monitor human rights violations in its supply chain. These investors are joining the chorus of rights organisations, unions, consumers, and students who have urged Nike to end its cruel and unnecessary four-year stand off with thousands of vulnerable unpaid workers. Investors claim that these millions in wages still legally owed to workers in Nike’ supply chain pose a sizable risk.
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August 7, 2024
Solidarity with the peoples’ movement in Bangladesh
The Clean Clothes Campaign Network stands in solidarity with the people of Bangladesh who were brutalized by the Bangladeshi government and condemns all violence against peaceful protesters. The protests that erupted in July and met with violent repression from the government resulted in at least 300 deaths. On 5 August, the protests led to the ousting of the prime minister.
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August 2, 2024
Activists disrupt Nike’s Olympic advertising extravaganza with unpaid workers’ demands
Spending its largest marketing budget in Olympic history, sportswear giant Nike has taken over Paris with advertising, including a screen spanning the Centre Pompidou museum. Activists yesterday evening raised the hypocrisy of Nike’s billion dollar marketing spend while refusing workers in its supply chain the $2.2 million in outstanding wages and compensation they are legally owed, through an action at the heart of Nike’s advertising.
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July 25, 2024
Ahead of Nike’s record Olympic spend, investors and activists urge Nike to settle debt with workers
On the eve of the Olympic games, a coalition of human rights advocates and major Nike investors are calling on the sportswear giant to pay garment workers in their supply chain the $2.2 million they have been owed for four years. Nike has spent more on this Olympics and is more visible at the games than ever before. While Nike is throwing billions at trying to bolster its image 70 investors are publicly demanding the company pay their workers and are bringing the issue to Nike’s September annual meeting through a resolution.
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July 8, 2024
Campaign groups call on Inditex to stop airborne fashion
Inditex, the parent company of brands such as Zara, is continuing to transport huge volumes of fast fashion items by air, causing considerable damage to the climate. In 2023, its transport-related CO2 emissions increased by 37%, reaching an all-time high. As the company’s management is ignoring a call by more than 26,000 people for it to change its course, Public Eye, Clean Clothes Campaign and other campaign groups are now turning to the shareholders of the Spanish fast-fashion group.
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June 26, 2024
Clean Clothes Campaign calls upon ILO Better Work brands to ensure its critics will not be silenced
Cambodian labour rights organisation Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL) is under increasing threat since it released a research report on 4 June. The report focused on the effectiveness of processes in the International Labour Organisation’s Better Factories Cambodia (ILO-BFC) programme in which brands like H&M, Inditex, C&A, and Nike participate. It addresses specifically employer-imposed barriers to freedom of association. Though at times critical, the report is certainly not an attack against the BFC or the ILO but meant as a critical evaluation that can be used to improve the BFC’s mechanisms and processes.
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June 25, 2024
One year since trade unionist’s murder, brands fail to take responsibility
Exactly one year ago, on 25 June 2023, trade union activist Shahidul Islam, was attacked and killed in front of the Prince Jacquard Sweater Ltd factory in Bangladesh. Despite repeated outreach by the Clean Clothes Campaign network to the garment brands identified as sourcing at the factory, the family has received almost no compensation from brands. Today, we commemorate Shahidul Islam’s life and activism and urge all involved brands to take responsibility and all brands sourcing from Bangladesh to take meaningful measures to ensure workers’ right to organise.
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