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September 13, 2021
Open letter to EU policymakers on social audit failures
Evoking collective memory of the fire that caused over 250 preventable deaths nine years ago, 15 human and labour rights organisations are jointly urging EU policymakers to address the systemic issues related to the role of social auditing in that disaster as well as in many others. Co-signatories of the open letter released today point out that -- despite serious and evident risks -- a social auditing firm had certified the Ali Enterprises factory in Pakistan as safe mere weeks before the deadly fire.
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August 19, 2021
This August 2021 legal brief by Clean Clothes Campaign, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, and Worker Rights Consortium explores legal liability of apparel brands under existing and upcoming supply chain legislation in relation the the possible expiration of the Bangladesh Accord.
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August 6, 2021
Country profile Bosnia-Herzegovina (2020)
This country profile of Bosnia-Herzegovina sums up the state of the garment industry in the country in 2020.
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August 6, 2021
Country profile Bosnia-Herzegovina (2020) - Bosnian
This Bosnian language country profile of Bosnia-Herzegovina sums up the state of the garment industry in the country in 2020.
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July 29, 2021
Letter by Kalpona Akter to the European Commission on sustainable corporate governance legislation
Bangladeshi labour rights activist and former garment workers wrote a letter (July 2021) to European Commissioners Didier Reynders and Thierry Breton who are jointly working on a legislative proposal on Sustainable Corporate Governance about how only a law that addresses the root causes of violations and has accountability at its core will truly transform and protect people’s lives.
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July 19, 2021
The crisis is far from over for garment workers during the pandemic. This Clean Clothes Campaign research from July 2021 shows that garment workers globally are owed 11.85 billion USD in unpaid income and severance from March 2020 to March 2021.
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July 15, 2021
We call upon the European Commission to take action against unfair purchasing practices
Clean Clothes Campaign and other human and labour rights organizations are asking the European Commission to develop complementary measures against unfair purchasing practices. Such practices are wide-spread among garment brands and retailers, and they severely inhibit the ability of their suppliers to respect and fulfil the rights of their workers, communities, and the environment.
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July 12, 2021
This brief by witness signatories to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, published in July 2021, looks at the progress rate of safety remediation in Inditex supplier factories in Bangladesh and identified outstanding deadly safety risks at those factories.
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July 7, 2021
Position paper on forced labour EU policy
Key considerations for an EU instrument to control the importation of forced labour products into the EU, by seven leading NGO's including CCC.
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July 2, 2021
In this report, published July 2021, Clean Clothes Campaign conducted interviews with 49 garment workers in the supply chains of H&M, Nike and Primark in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Indonesia. The interviews show that the Coronavirus-induced crisis continues to have a devastating impact on the wages, working conditions, and labour rights of garment workers.
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June 23, 2021
Discussion paper on (the lack of) transparency in the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles
This paper looks at how transparency is handled within the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) - regarding both supply chain transparency and transparency on the due diligence processes of its members, i.e. the PST´s so-called Review Process. The German Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is a member of the PST and has always worked towards improving the Partnership`s approach to supply chain and reporting transparency. However, as this analysis shows, there has been almost no progress at all in terms of supply chain transparency.
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June 21, 2021
CCC Turkey COVID research report
Research carried out by CCC Turkey into the impact of the pandemic on the garment and textile industry
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