Resources
Latest reports
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April 28, 2025
CCC Position Paper: Omnibus Proposal
Re-centering workers and human rights in the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and Reporting Directives
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February 10, 2025
Model Agreement for Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Protection and Grievances
In light of increasing legislation on human rights due diligence, more and more companies, industry- and multistakeholder initiatives are setting up operational-level non-judicial grievance mechanisms. The model agreement, developed by the PYW union committee, provides a benchmark for a non-judicial grievance mechanism covering FOA's core labour and human rights and the right to collective bargaining. It is meant to support efforts from unions to develop Enforceable Brand Agreements and, importantly, to counter weaker efforts from brands and business-led initiatives by providing a yardstick against which to measure them.
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January 24, 2025
Backsliding Toward Disaster?
In a memorandum to global apparel brands that participate in the garment industry’s most respected workplace safety programme, leading labour rights NGOs have shared new research findings showing that factory owner influence over the programme’s operations in Bangladesh is weakening enforcement and endangering workers. The NGOs – Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), and Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN), which are Witness Signatories to the International Accord – call for restructuring the RSC governance to eliminate employer influence over the inspection process and maintain the integrity of the safety programme.
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November 12, 2024
CSDDD Guide to Transposition and Implementation for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
The CSDDD Guide to Transposition and Implementation for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), published by the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) in collaboration with eight other NGOs in November 2024, provides NGOs, workers' organizations, and activists with an overview of how the directive’s text can be improved to strengthen protections for rights-holders, close accountability gaps for companies, and foster real change for workers, trade unions, communities, and other victims of corporate abuse.
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Our statements
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The Big EU Deregulation
On 10 March 2025, over 350 organisations raise that a disastrous Omnibus proposal erodes EU’s corporate accountability commitments and slashes human rights and environmental protections.
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153 organisations write to European Commission to not reopen corporate accountability rules
A diverse coalition of stakeholders dedicated to advancing human rights and environmental protection, wrote today to the European Commission, sharing their concerns regarding the Commission's intention to re-open current sustainability legislation aiming at enforcing corporate accountability. In the joint statement, submitted as input to the European Commission Roundtable Consultations on 'Simplification,' the authors, including the Clean Clothes Campaign, express their unwavering opposition to the re-opening of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, which risks undermining hard-fought advancements on the protection of labour and human rights and the environment from harmful corporate practice.
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Omnibus proposal will create costly confusion and lower protection for people and the planet
On 8 November 2024, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced she would introduce a proposal to amend three key pillars of the European Green Deal through an Omnibus law: the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and the Taxonomy Regulation. As members of civil society, human rights and environmental defenders, trade unions and climate activists, we call on the European Commission to actively protect these EU corporate accountability laws, reaffirm the official timeline for their transposition and implementation, and be fully transparent about the Omnibus process.
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Open Letter Sri Lanka AI CCC HRW
Amnesty International, Clean Clothes Campaign and Human Rights Watch express concern about the plans for changes to the labour law in Sri Lanka and the lack of transparency and process.
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