Resources

• 

  May 13, 2024

  Severance Guarantee Fund Agreement: Guidance for Governments

  This guidance document explains why and how governments should support and promote the Severance Guarantee Fund (SGF) Agreement.

• 

  February 28, 2024

  Use of Potassium Permanganate by Brands and Its Effects on the Environment

  This February 2024 report by Clean Clothes Campaign Turkey reveals the harmful effects of potassium permanganate (PP) bleaching of jeans on worker health and the environment. The report, which covers 44 brands, focuses on the impact of PP chemical use on worker health and environmental pollution in the Ergene Basin, which is now unsuitable for agricultural purposes.

• 

  January 3, 2024

  The Impact of the Earthquake on Textile and Garment Workers

  Interviews with 100+ workers in this January 2024 report by CCC Turkey shows that garment factories and their buyers left workers to fend for themselves after the devastating earthquake that hit Türkiye in February 2023. As most of them were not paid in full in the aftermath of the earthquake, workers had to return to their jobs out of financial necessity without having a safe place to live and before the factories they worked in had undergone any structural safety inspections.

• 

  September 21, 2023

  Stitched under strain - Long term wage loss across the Cambodian garment industry

  This September 2023 report is an alarming indictment on a global industry that has been allowed to put company profit margins ahead of the rights of the workers that make their clothes. Amid soaring living costs, Cambodian garment workers are calling for an increase in their wage so they can afford everyday essentials like food, rent and education for their children. The findings of this research demonstrate the urgency of this demand. Organisations connected with the Clean Clothes Campaign network, such as ActionAid and Cambodian organisations CENTRAL, CATU and the C.CAWDU are calling on international brands to ensure Cambodian garment workers in their supply chain are earning a fair wage that keeps them out of poverty.

1 - 4 of 139 Results Show 4 More Articles

• 

  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.

• 

  Joint statement: Fair Wear Foundation and Clean Clothes Campaign on future collaboration

  CCC will no longer contribute to Fair Wear’s work through its governance structure, but the two organisations will continue to work closely together; Both at the central level and through the many linkages between Fair Wear teams and the CCC network in production countries. CCC network members and partners are not in any way precluded from continuing their engagement with Fair Wear.

• 

  Open letter: European Union (EU) Forced Labour Regulation Trilogue

  We are writing on behalf of the 33 undersigned civil society organisations and trade unions to outline key issues that should be considered during the upcoming trilogues in order to make the proposed EU Forced Labour Regulation (FLR) a success.

• 

  Open Letter: The EU must uphold Human Rights. Defenders call for a Human Rights Centred Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

  As Global South signatories, we represent and convey the voices of those suffering the most from irresponsible business activity, including Indigenous peoples and workers at the end of global value chains. Ahead of what may be the final negotiations on CSDDD, we request that you hear our call for an irective that protects human rights and our planet first beyond “business as usual”.

1 - 4 of 52 Results Show 4 More Articles