People who make our clothes have a right to safe factories, fair contracts and wages, and freedom to organise.
In 1989, a group of activists in the Netherlands took up the case of a garment factory in the Philippines where women were fired for demanding a legal minimum wage. They wanted to support garment workers’ organising efforts, bridge the gap between consumers and workers, and hold multinationals accountable.
Clean Clothes Campaign is a network dedicated to improving working conditions and empowering workers in the global garment and sportswear industry. Today, the Clean Clothes Campaign is a global network of over 220 organisations, operating in over 45 countries. We hold brands accountable for their abuse and exploitation while pushing for long-term change in the industry.
Our work
Behind the clothes we wear lies a system built on exploitation. From poverty wages and unsafe factories to wage theft and modern slavery, the global garment industry thrives on injustice - while workers face violence, harassment, and ruthless crackdowns for trying to organise. And still, major brands turn their backs.
All this… for fleeting trends and throwaway fashion. The only winners? Billionaires and shareholders.
But change is happening. Around the world, people are rising up, demanding better = and winning. New laws, historic agreements, and landmark victories are reshaping the future of fashion.
The CCC Network’s vision is that all people working in the global garment and sportswear industries enjoy and exercise their labour and human rights at work and in the community, and are able to defend and improve the implementation of those rights.
Our Mission
The Clean Clothes Campaign Network works to structurally improve working conditions and support the empowerment of manufacturing workers in global garment and sportswear supply chains so that governments protect employment rights and human rights, companies respect these rights and workers have access to remedy for violations of these rights.
What We're Doing
Winning Justice for Workers
Workers facing injustices in their factories can alert us through our Urgent Appeal system. Together, we hold brands to account through public solidarity and pressure campaigns.
Changing the Industry
We co-develop global campaigns with workers to achieve systemic goals, from living wages to safetyin the workplace — through binding solutions. We lobby politicians and companies to create better laws, better agreements, and better practices.
Strengthening the Movement for Change
We raise awareness on labour issues in the garment sector through direct action, research, investigation, and campaigning, to educate people on who makes their clothes and in what conditions. Within our network, we co-organise mutual capacity developmental trainings with worker groups.
Our Historic Wins
Making factories safe for millions The International Accord, a binding agreement between brands and unions that improves safety for factory workers, started in 2013 in Bangladesh and is now expanding its work to more countries to ensure that workers do not have to risk their lives and health at work.
Securing millions in unpaid wages and benefits for workers through over 500 Urgent Appeals cases and the #PayYourWorkers campaign.
Standing up for union rights for workers In Cambodia, Turkey, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh and elsewhere — our pressure campaigns have led to the release of many workersfrom prison, with bogus criminal charges dropped.
Achieving transparency Many global brands committed to our Transparency Pledge and many more published supply chain information.
Securing compensation payments for victims and their families In the wake of the massive Rana Plaza, Tazreen, and Ali Enterprises tragedies of 2012-2013 and many smaller incidents before and since. We actively work towards structural systems to compensate workers for workplace injuries.
Our achievements are thanks to our powerful network and the engagement of hundreds of thousands of people who support our joint campaigns.
Annual Reports
Our annual reports summarises the activities and achievements of Schone Kleren Campagne (the Dutch CCC) and the CCC International Office, based in the Netherlands and Belgium. Other network organisations within Clean Clothes Campaign as a network produce their own annual reports.
