“New study by The Nature Conservancy and Bain & Company provides the first look into the scope of microplastics emissions from textile manufacturing. For every 500 shirts manufactured, one t-shirt’s w ...
“The report provides a comprehensive picture of the work of the train-the-trainer program that six non-governmental organizations (three labor, one women’s rights, and two public health organizations) ...
“Seven unions affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union are campaigning against workers rights’ violations by Style Industries which is determined not to sign a recognition agreement with the Kenyan Unio ...
"Bangladesh has reformed a crisis management core committee launched back in 2010 as it looks to resolve unrest and address the ready-made garment (RMG) sector’s broader labour issues. The committee w ...
“Gladys Tang is a Senior Sustainability Manager for Tchibo Merchandising Hong Kong. Tchibo is a German brand selling a wide variety of products across Europe. In this episode, part one of our conversa ...
"This report provides an in-depth analysis of our 2021 Gender Benchmark. Our first-ever Gender Benchmark, it assesses and ranks 35 key apparel companies in their efforts to drive gender equality and w ...
"More than one thousand factories of different sectors are yet to disburse salary and bonus to their workers. Out of 7,824 factories, under Industrial Police's purview, 447 did not pay salaries of Jun ...
"Four organisations representing the global leather industry have issued a joint statement in which they challenge the growing use of 'sustainable' alternatives to leather. The International Council o ...
"A groundbreaking new study by Ocean Wise, “Domestic laundry and microfiber pollution: Exploring fiber shedding from consumer apparel textiles”, published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, finds it ...
"A quarter of a million garment workers in Myanmar have lost their jobs following the military coup in February, according to a new study by the International Labour Organization (ILO)." The ILO says ...
"With an economy already weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic, a rapid assessment by the ILO reveals a deep employment crisis following the military takeover in Myanmar. Estimates released by the Interna ...
"In Honduras, where union leaders are targeted with violence and even murdered for trying to form unions and improve workers’ lives, Darlin Oviedo, president of the apparel union SITRAJASPER (the Unio ...
"China plans to initiate several steps to improve recycling and resource utilisation, enhance efficiency and introduce clean production in key industries, including petrochemicals, by 2025 to nurture ...
"Women make up almost half the country’s population. But they form a very small part of the workforce with Pakistan ranking second to last for them in leadership roles. Women’s participation in the la ...
"On 20 July, more than 800 workers working at Tinh Loi Garment Co., Ltd [aka, Regent Garment Factory] in Lai Vu Industrial Park, Kim Thanh District, Hai Duong were forced to take leave to return home ...
"Many parts of garment-producing areas in Asian supply countries could be underwater by 2030, according to new research commissioned by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Two researchers at ...
"While the initial economic impacts of the coup were extremely severe, in May and June there were early signs that constraints were easing in some areas. Mobility at retail and transport venues improv ...
"The activities of the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) under the Ministry of Labour and Employment are barely visible, despite widespread reports of poor working condi ...
"Due diligence and company performance The need to level the playing field is regularly cited as an argument for mHREDD. This was once again emphasised in the latest KnowTheChain benchmark, which asse ...
"The leather sector in Bangladesh contributes about 2 per cent to industrial production and 0.6 per cent to the country’s GDP (Ministry of Commerce and International Finance Corporation 2019). The sec ...
"A study finds Bangladesh’s leather industry employing children in hazardous work for a pittance. Children as young as seven years are working with hazardous chemicals, heavy machinery or carrying hea ...
"In 2014, Uniqlo - owned by the Japanese company Fast Retailing - ceased sourcing from Jaba Garmindo, an Indonesian manufacturer. The Indonesian company went into liquidation a few months later, but d ...
"The garment workers will not lose jobs for delays in joining workplaces because of the restrictions on movement during lockdown, said Faruque Hassan, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and ...
"Free trade agreements are often criticised for paving the way for corporations in richer countries to outsource their production to countries with lower wages, weaker unions and inferior environmenta ...
"Since April 1, Covid-19 outbreaks have hit 518 factories and a total of 36,861 of their employees in 49 provinces, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration. CCSA spokesman Tawees ...
"After all the talk of "bouncing back better" in our industry during the past 18-months, we are still failing the people who make our clothes. Garment workers have been described by one human rights o ...
"The proportion of textile and garment factories that have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic has reached 30-35 percent, according to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas). “I think tha ...
"Barla Giribabu owns a piece of land in the south of India where he has grown cotton for the past two decades. Like most farmers in India, his landholding is small. On top of the limited land size, vo ...
"The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh has done crucial work to make factories in Bangladesh safer. It could only do so because brands signed a legally binding agreement committing them ...
"Although the integrated vaccination program announced by the government has started, there are no signs of implementation in the field of readymade garments and textile workers. Factory owners involv ...
