2021
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December 31, 2021
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, 2021
New union-employer agreement in Sri Lanka addresses key worker rights issues
Today, garment worker unions in Sri Lanka have signed a ground-breaking agreement with employer association Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) in which both parties reached an understanding about how to address vital workplace issues for garment workers, especially during the pandemic.
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December 22, 2021
German shirt brand Olymp urged to stop wage theft in Croatia
This week, activists all over Germany deliver a letter from former workers of the Orljava factory to Olymp stores across the country. The activists and workers hold the German brand to account for the wage theft of 172 workers. The Orljava factory in Croatia produced business shirts for the German high quality shirt brand Olymp for over 50 years, until it stopped all orders after the covid pandemic hit.
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December 14, 2021
Statement of solidarity with workers from Sindh province, Pakistan
Garment workers, trade unions and labour rights organisations of the Sindh province in Pakistan are fighting to receive the 40% increase to the minimum wage that they are legally entitled to.
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December 10, 2021
Solidarity Statement from CCC South East Asia Coalition
On Human Rights Day 2021, CCC South East Asia Coalition has issued this statement, standing in solidarity withgarment workers and all those in the South East Asia region fighting for their human rights, freedom and democracy.
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December 8, 2021
Letter to Von der Leyen: time for the EU to get serious about ending corporate abuse
On Wednesday, 8 December, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice and 46 other civil society and trade union organisations sent an open letter to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asking her to show that the EU is serious about addressing corporate abuse, following last week’s news that the sustainable corporate governance draft law has been delayed to 2022.
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December 1, 2021
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 29, 2021
CSO's call on EU to ensure gender responsive law on human rights due diligence
On International Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Day, 61 CSO's call on the EU Commissioners to ensure gender responsive law on human rights due diligence and corporate accountability. Today is a day to pay tribute to the women who defend human rights and the environment across the world. Gender-responsive corporate accountability and due diligence rules are urgently needed to properly address these deep-seated inequalities.
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November 4, 2021
Garment and home-textile brands sourcing from Bangladesh must sign on to the International Accord
Two months since the launch of the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry, 150 garment and home textile brands have signed on to this life-saving agreement. Several of the most well-known brands in the world have however shown no intention to join this agreement that works towards keeping their workers safe. From this week on, organisations in the Clean Clothes Campaign network therefore commenced a public campaign against those brands that have failed to sign the Accord, starting with Levi’s.
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November 1, 2021
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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October 25, 2021
Daw Myo Aye released from prison in Myanmar
The leader of Solidarity Trade Unions of Myanmar (STUM) has been released by the military.
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October 4, 2021
Join us for an online event exploring gender in the garment industry.
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October 1, 2021
This blog aims to collect 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. The blog is updated three times a week.
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September 28, 2021
Webinar: Labour rights abuses in Myanmar since the military coup - a focus on the garment sector
Join our webinar on 13th October as we bring together experts on Myanmar, labour rights and the garment industry to reflect on ways brands and the international community can support labour and human rights.
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September 22, 2021
Call for the EU to suspend preferential EBA trade tariffs from Myanmar
CCC's stance on the ongoing situation in Myanmar.
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September 21, 2021
Call to release Daw Myo Aye on humanitarian grounds
Union leader Daw Myo Aye's health deteriorates in Myanmar prison.
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September 20, 2021
New data on Fashion Checker shows transparency remains key to hold brands accountable as workers, unions and campaigners call on brands to not leave workers in destitution during the pandemic.
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September 15, 2021
Webinar: the European Union's role in ending gender based violence
In the global textile production industry, more than 80% of workers are women, and 75% of them regularly experience gender-based violence in the factories. The Clean Clothes Campaign is organising a webinar on September 30th to discuss concrete legislation measures to improve life and working conditions for female garment workers worldwide.
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September 13, 2021
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.
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September 9, 2021
On eve of deadly factory fire anniversary, Pakistani labour activists urge action for worker safety
On the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Karachi, labour leaders in Pakistan call upon apparel and textile brands to ensure that factories in their country are made safe. With the start of the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Garment and Textile Industry last week, there is now a concrete avenue to address factory safety in the country. Labour leaders stress the urgency of swiftly expanding the Accord programme to Pakistan.
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September 6, 2021
Clean Clothes Campaign is inviting journalists to a media briefing on 9 September, ahead of the ninth anniversary of the deadly Ali Enterprises factory fire, which killed over 250 workers in Pakistan. The briefing will focus on the opportunity to expand upon the safety work of the Accord to bring life-saving changes to workplace safety in Pakistan in light of the newly concluded International Accord for Health and Safety in the Garment and Textile Industry, and the failure of private social auditing systems.
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September 1, 2021
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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September 1, 2021
Major apparel brands sign new safety Accord, others turn their backs on workers
Today, the new International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry, signed by 77 international apparel brands, takes effect as the successor agreement to the Bangladesh Accord. Clean Clothes Campaign urges all apparel and textile brands that have not yet signed the new Accord to do so immediately, to ensure the work in Bangladesh can continue and work in other countries can start.
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August 30, 2021
Garment workers' lives are put at risk by exempting workers from lockdown measures and making them work at full capacity in garment factories to meet orders of brands headquartered in countries with high vaccination rates. Currently we see this unfolding in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh during the wave of the delta variant. Over 50 organisations from around the world are urging brands, governments, and employers to take immediate action.
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August 24, 2021
NGO signatories to Bangladesh Accord welcome new binding worker safety agreement
Today, apparel brands and labour unions announced agreement on a new International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry, thereby preserving, extending, and expanding the model pioneered by the Bangladesh Accord for protecting worker safety. The non-governmental organization signatories (known as witness signatories) to the Bangladesh Accord – Clean Clothes Campaign, Worker Rights Consortium, Maquila Solidarity Network, and Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum – issued the following statement:
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August 19, 2021
Bangladesh Accord expiration poses liability risk to apparel brands
An analysis of existing and upcoming human rights due diligence legislation in relation to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, published today, shows that apparel brands will expose themselves to considerable liability risks if they fail to negotiate and sign a follow up agreement to this ground-breaking safety programme, which will expire in two weeks’ time.
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August 4, 2021
Major apparel brands let garment workers’ lives hang in the balance
Today, Clean Clothes Campaign launches a public tracker showing which garment brands are advocates of a new strong binding agreement on factory safety and which major brands are an obstacle to progress in the field of worker safety. The tracker calls out major companies such as H&M and Bestseller (Vero Moda, Jack & Jones) for not using their considerable power to ensure that advances on supply chain factory safety are maintained.
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August 1, 2021
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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July 29, 2021
Bangladeshi human rights defender Kalpona Akter wrote an open letter to European Commissioners Didier Reynders and Thierry Breton who are jointly working on a legislative proposal on Sustainable Corporate Governance.
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July 20, 2021
We call for the immediate implementation of Fair Labor Association's (FLA) recommendation with the launch of a new documentary, How to Steal Your Workers' Future, an intimate and powerful portrayal of the long-term devastation that severance theft causes for garment workers and their families.
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July 19, 2021
Workers owed $11.85 billion after fashion brands' inaction
The crisis is far from over for garment workers who are owed 11.85 billion USD in unpaid income and severance, whilst labour rights violations flourish, according to new research by Clean Clothes Campaign.
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July 16, 2021
Open letter to Accord signatory brands in response to recent factory fire
On 11 July 2021, witness signatories Worker Rights Consortium and Clean Clothes Campaign sent the following letter to signatory brands to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh in response to a major fire in a juice factory in Bangladesh on 8 July 2021.
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July 14, 2021
Fashion brands fail to address pandemic-era wage theft in Cambodia
Cambodian garment workers producing goodsfor international fashion and sportswear brands, such as Adidas, VF, Target, Nike, and Gap, were deprived of an estimated US$ 109 million in wages during the April and May 2021 national lockdown, according to calculations by Cambodian trade unions and Clean Clothes Campaign. Unions and activists call on international brands to pay workers’ full wages throughout the duration of the pandemic and sign an enforceable agreement to prevent future pay theft.
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July 13, 2021
Zara must not walk away from safety agreement while workers remain at risk sewing its clothes
A new brief, published by labour rights groups ahead of Inditex’s shareholder meeting of 13 July, shows that the company urgently needs to sign a new binding agreement on factory safety in Bangladesh before the current programme runs out on 31 August 2021. The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, the most successful safety programme in the contemporary history of apparel supply chains, has enabled great progress, but Inditex must not ignore the deadly hazards that remain.
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July 2, 2021
H&M, Nike and Primark use pandemic to squeeze factory workers in production countries even more
In a hard-hitting new research report, Clean Clothes Campaign finds that H&M, Nike and Primark have driven factory workers in their supply chains in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Indonesia into desperation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews conducted with 49 garment workers in these countries demonstrate 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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July 1, 2021
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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June 24, 2021
The current wave of Covid-19 infections in South Asia has devastating consequences for workers in Sri Lanka, negatively affecting their health, livelihood, and right to unionise. Unions and labour rights organisations call upon major brands sourcing from Sri Lanka to take responsibility for the workers in the supply chain.
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June 22, 2021
Working conditions for Turkey's textile workers worsen under the pandemic
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Clean Clothes Campaign Turkey conducted research to identify conditions workers are facing in the textile industry. The study found workers experienced several risk and violations that emerged with COVID-19, such as: unpaid leave, short-time working allowance, and compulsory use of annual leaves. There were also issues regarding health and safety measures, and whether distancing, the use of masks, and hygiene rules were followed.
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June 17, 2021
A union rights win for Next workers in Sri Lanka!
After months of fighting for Next to formally recognise the Free Trade Zones & General Services Employees Unions branch union within the Next Manufacturing Ltd (NML) factory, workers from the NML factory in Sri Lanka have finally secured victory. We celebrate with all the workers who have fought for their right to join a union and refused to give up in face of a reluctant management.
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June 11, 2021
We welcome the introduction of human rights due diligence as an obligation through the new supply chain law that was passed today in Germany. However, the law also has some serious shortcomings. We are calling for the upcoming EU level legislation to introduce comprehensive due diligence obligations and ensure access to justice for the victims, including through civil procedure.
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May 31, 2021
Bangladesh Accord : three months respite but the struggle is not over
Global unions and negotiating signatory companies have announced that they agreed upon a three month extension of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh to allow for more time to conclude negotiations on a new binding safety agreement. Without such an agreement, apparel brands’ and factories’ efforts towards factory safety would cease to be legally binding and would lack union participation, thus reducing the task to make factories safer to an exercise in self-monitoring.
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May 31, 2021
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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May 26, 2021
Amazon workers across the world launch action to Make Amazon Pay All Its Workers
On Wednesday, 26 May 2021, as Amazon holds its annual shareholder meeting, workers and trade unions across the world will take part in a global day of action in solidarity with workers in Amazon’s supply chain in Bangladesh and Cambodia.
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May 18, 2021
Brands and governments must step up in face of India’s Covid crisis
In the face of the current wave of Covid-19 infections hitting garment producing countries in South Asia, the organisations of the Clean Clothes Campaign network are calling upon apparel companies to take action to mitigate the pandemic’s devastating effect on workers. Furthermore, they urge governments to do all in their power to keep workers safe.
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May 17, 2021
Garment workers' unions and rights groups support TRIPS waiver
The global supply chains of international brands and retailers are spread across low-and-middle-income countries including India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Central America and Mexico, and employs at least an estimated 35 million workers. Since the onset of Covid-19, the garment and textile industry, and especially its poor workers have suffered huge losses.
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May 14, 2021
On 15 May 2013, only weeks after the Rana Plaza collapse killed at least 1,134 people, brands and retailers signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh with unions. This groundbreaking legally-binding agreement is expiring on 31 May, two weeks from now, just after the eighth anniversary of its programme that has made 1,600 factories safer for over two million garment workers.
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May 14, 2021
Detained Myanmar labour activist, Daw Myo Aye, faces up to three years in prison
Trade union leader Daw Myo Aye is one of nearly 5,000 people arrested by the military since the coup in February. She remains in prison where her health is deteriorating.
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April 30, 2021
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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April 29, 2021
European parliament committee can bring real change to European garment workers' wages
Almost one million garment workers in seven of the European Union's low wage member states would profit directly from a strong and effective EU minimum wage directive. An additional 1.5 million garment workers in eight other European countries would indirectly benefit from this directive. Already now, the discussion on the directive is encouraging national debates in these countries on adequate minimum wages which would enable a decent living of workers.
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April 29, 2021
In the week of the world day for health and safety at work and the week after the Rana Plaza anniversary, the witness signatories to the Bangladesh Accord publish a report showing that deadly safety hazards remain at factories producing for major apparel brands and retailers. The Bangladesh Accord - the most successful safety programme in the contemporary history of apparel supply chains - is set to expire on 31 May of this year.
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April 28, 2021
Justice still outstanding: an update of legal cases related to Rana Plaza eight years on
Eight years since the Rana Plaza collapse of 24 April 2013, full justice is still far off. The survivors have been calling for sentencing of Sohel Rana, the five factory owners, and others responsible for this disaster. However, an update of case statuses published on the occasion of the anniversary of the factory disaster, by the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), shows that the attainment of justice is still stalled and delayed.
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April 22, 2021
Commemorating the Rana Plaza anniversary by preventing the next disaster
24 April marks eight years since the Rana Plaza building collapsed with thousands of people inside, killing at least 1,134 people. In the face of a new lockdown in Bangladesh we are offering an online commemoration platform, to safely mark this anniversary. Additionally the website enables visitors to urge garment brands to continue preventing future disasters. This is vital as the Bangladesh Accord, the programme that has successfully made factories safer since Rana Plaza, is at risk of being rendered meaningless within the next five weeks.
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April 21, 2021
Families of 28 drowned workers in Morocco call for urgent support
On February 8th 2021 nineteen women and nine men between the ages of twenty and forty died in a garment factory in Tangiers, Morocco, after a short circuit caused by the heavy rains in the region flooded many places and houses at street level. The families of the workers call on the Moroccon state for urgent support.
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April 16, 2021
Call for immediate release of arrested labour activist Daw Myo Aye in Myanmar
The Clean Clothes Campaign global network calls for the immediate release of labour activist Daw Myo Aye, who was arrested in Yangoon on 15 April 2021. The leader of the Solidarity of Trade Unions in Myanmar (STUM) was forcibly taken from her office by the army yesterday. Four cars drove up to her office and took her to a police station for interrogation where she was detained overnight.
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April 9, 2021
Garment brands and manufacturers cannot stay silent on Myanmar atrocities
The Clean Clothes Campaign Network condemns the silence of garment brands, including Aldi North, Lindex and Marks & Spencer, on the military in Myanmar committing atrocities since the military coup at the start of February. Brands such as H&M, Next, C&A, Primark and Benetton, who have suspended placing new orders, still have a clear responsibility towards workers to ensure wages and severance are being paid.
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April 6, 2021
Clean Clothes Campaign is taking another step in the continuous struggle to improve the working conditions and empower workers in the global garment and sportswear industries by introducing the Europe Floor Wage: a cross-border base living wage benchmark for Central, East and Southeast Europe.
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April 6, 2021
Second Cairo factory tragedy in a month shows need for international safety agreement
Last week, according to reports, at least 8 people died and 29 were injured when a ten story building housing a garment factory collapsed on them in the early morning. Clean Clothes Campaign offers condolences to the victims and their family and calls for an international binding agreement on factory safety that holds brands, retailers, and factory owners accountable.
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March 31, 2021
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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March 30, 2021
As global fashion brands face commercial retaliation in China over their statements against the use of forced Uyghur labour, the advocates leading the campaign against forced labour in the Uyghur Region are calling on companies not to trade their human rights principles to hang onto commercial advantage.
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March 24, 2021
Labour rights advocates today published a brief on the situation of the Sri Lankan garment industry during the pandemic, which reveals that apparel brands, retailers, and manufacturers have continued to take in huge profits while cutting costs at the expense of workers' health, employment security, and income. The organisations behind the brief are urging brands and employers in the Sri Lankan garment sector to start a national dialogue with unions to ensure workers’ rights, wages and health are safeguarded.
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March 12, 2021
Workers Suffer While Fashion Brands’ Profits Return
200 rights organisations demand brands fix their broken industry by putting the money on the table to ensure workers can feed their families and respecting labour rights. For only ten cents more per t-shirt, companies like Amazon, Nike, and Next can make sure workers survive the pandemic.
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March 11, 2021
Solidarity with arrested labour activists in Hong Kong
Statement of Solidarity with labour activists, Carol Ng and Winnie Yu, arrested in Hong Kong.
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March 4, 2021
Civil society calls on MEPs to support corporate accountability in key vote.
Next week, Members of European Parliament will vote on a report that paves the way for the EU to require companies to protect human rights and the environment in their global value chains by law. MEPs must back this report.
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March 1, 2021
Garment brands and manufacturers must condemn the military coup and support workers in Myanmar
Joint statement of solidarity with workers in Myanmar
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February 28, 2021
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 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 16, 2021
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
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 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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