News overview
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February 25, 2021
Over half a million people tell the EU to hold business accountable
Over half a million people around the globe have demanded a strong EU law to hold corporations accountable for their impact on human rights, including trade union and workers’ rights, and the environment.
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February 25, 2021
Live-blog: How the Coronavirus affects garment workers in supply chains
This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.
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February 16, 2021
Factory tragedy shows need for international safety agreement and improved working conditions in Morocco
Last week, at least 28 garment workers died following heavy flooding in a sweatshop in Tangier, Morocco. Our thoughts are with these workers and their families. This tragedy shows the urgent need for better working conditions in the Moroccan garment industry, as well as an international binding agreement on factory safety that holds brands, retailers and factory owners accountable for creating safe and healthy workplace conditions.
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February 6, 2021
CCC network statement in response to Natchi Apparels case
Gender-based violence and harassment, including sexual harassment in the world of work, are among the most pervasive human rights violations. The recent report of the rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit garment worker at Natchi Apparels by her male supervisor, in Tamil Nadu exemplifies this fact.
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February 4, 2021
A message to the workers in Myanmar
Solidarity message from the CCC network to workers in Myanmar after this week's coup.
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February 3, 2021
January 2021 Covid blog
This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.
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January 21, 2021
Fashioning justice: Clean Clothes Campaign’s latest publication calls for mandatory and comprehensive human rights due diligence
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January 20, 2021
Wage Forward: Break the poverty chain.
A broad coalition of unions, worker centres, NGOs and other advocates have come together to develop and advance a proposal for a legally binding and enforceable wage agreement in order to achieve Living Wages as standard in the Global Garment Industry.
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December 31, 2020
December 2020 Covid blog
This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.
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December 23, 2020
Disney paid up! NBC Universal - You're next!
Thanks in large part to concerned citizens raising the alarm, Disney has joined Starbucks and Tesco in committing to #PayUp. The Kanlayanee workers have also received payment from these three brands. Now just NBC Universal is holding out on paying the wages and severance these people are owed! #WeSeeYouNBCU
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December 11, 2020
Faulty Pakistan factory audit: Italian social auditor RINA yet again disregards families harmed by textile factory fire
Italian social auditing company RINA Services S.p.A. has refused to take responsibility for the faulty certification of a garment factory in Karachi (Pakistan) in which over 250 people died. Pakistani survivor and labour rights organisations together with European allies had filed a complaint at the Italian OECD National Contact Point in September 2018.
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December 4, 2020
US ban cotton imports from XinJiang region
Call on your local government to #EndUyghurForcedLabour and create stronger human rights due diligence legislation. Stop brands like Zara profiting from #ForcedLabourFashion.
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December 3, 2020
Croatian state’s Coronavirus-support subsidises premium German brand Olymp
Croatian garment factory Orljava has been producing for Olymp, their main buyer, for 50 years. However, it is only now, having received government aid in response to Coronavirus, that the supplier is able to pay their workers' wages in accordance with the law.
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November 30, 2020
November 2020 Covid blog
This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.
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November 25, 2020
End GBV - Ratify ILO 190
Preventing violence and harassment against women at work is vital in a time of crisis. CCC calls on the European Council to ratify ILO C190 to protect women from gender based violence.
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November 23, 2020
Survivors of deadly garment factory fire continue to fight for full justice
Eight years ago today, a fire in the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh trapped hundreds of workers in a building without fire exits. At least 112 workers died and many more were injured for life after jumping from upper floors. Despite receiving compensation for medical costs and loss of income per international standards, full justice is still outstanding, and a group of severely injured workers spend their days protesting to ask attention for their destitution.
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