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"Good policy won’t be helpful unless there is regular monitoring, follow-up, guidance and reporting to ensure effective implementation"
In our section "What's going on in...?" we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. For Bangladesh, we speak with Smita Nimilita, Country Representative for...
Juliette Tafreschi
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August 17, 2022
What's going on in Indonesia: Growing awareness of sustainability amid lingering pandemic impacts and a changing legal environment
In our section "What's going on in...?" we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. For Indonesia, we speak with Amalia Falah Alam. Alam is the country manager...
Juliette Tafreschi
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September 20, 2022
What's going on in Pakistan: "The textile industry has gone through a very difficult time - but we will find a way to revive the industry"
In our section "What's going on in...?" we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. For Pakistan, we speak with Azizullah Goheer, Secretary General, of the...
Juliette Tafreschi
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July 18, 2023
“Companies that were responsible during the pandemic recovered very quickly”
In our new section "What's going on in..." we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. We kick off the series with prominent Labour Researcher Dr. Do Chi Quynh....
Juliette Tafreschi
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February 22, 2022
Traceability and Transparency: Digital Solutions to Improve Tracebility and Transparency in the Textile and Agriculture Sectors
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 15, 2023
Traceability in the Agricultural Sector
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 15, 2023
Digital Solutions and Challenges in the Textile and Garment Sector
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 15, 2023
Digital Solutions and Challenges in the Agriculture Sector
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 15, 2023
Ask an Expert: Anne Sutanto on making business productive and sustainable
Meet Anne Sutanto, Vice CEO of Indonesian Apparel giant PT Pan Brothers to hear what she has to say on the links between productivity and sustainability.
Asia Garment Hub
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February 17, 2023
IT solutions for due diligence
Overview of IT solutions for companies who want to implement Due Diligence principles in their supply chains.
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 17, 2023
IT-Lösungen zur Sorgfaltspflicht
Überblick über IT-Lösungen für Unternehmen, die die Grundsätze der Sorgfaltspflicht in ihren Lieferketten umsetzen wollen.
GIZ FABRIC
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February 20, 2023
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OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector: Due diligence costs and responsibilities - Collaborative approaches to buyer supplier relationships
Buyer-supplier collaboration on due diligence implementation based on distribution of costs and responsibilities along the supply chain can help support the development of effective due diligence processes and a more equal distribution of the burden of compliance. Within the...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 23, 2023
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OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector: Responsible Purchasing Practices - how can companies integrate responsible purchasing practices in their businesses?
Brands are increasingly turning their attention to their purchasing practices, however, progress towards responsible purchasing practices (RPP) across the sector is being slowed due to a number of repeatedly reported barriers. Our panel will focus on how brands can revise their...
GIZ FABRIC
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March 01, 2023
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OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector 2023: Contracts and HREDD Legislation
It is widely known that contracts are frequently used tools for carrying out human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD). Frequency of use is not tantamount to effective use, however, and the two should not be confused. The new HREDD laws coming from Europe have raised...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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March 01, 2023
Oxfam Report: Trading Away Our Rights
This report reveals the double standards at the heart of the corporate practices that are emerging under globalization. Companies’ demands for faster, more flexible, and cheaper production in their supply chains are undermining the very labour standards that they claim to be...
Asia Garment Hub
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May 04, 2023
Guide to responsible sourcing: Material Concerns
How responsible sourcing can deliver the goods for business and workers in the garment industry
Asia Garment Hub
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May 04, 2023
Made in Myanmar - Entrenched poverty or decent jobs for garment workers?
Asia Garment Hub
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May 04, 2023
“Paying for a Bus Ticket and Expecting to Fly” How Apparel Brand Purchasing Practices Drive Labor Abuses
How Apparel Brand Purchasing Practices Drive Labor Abuses
Asia Garment Hub
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May 04, 2023
Fixing Fashion Follow Up call for evidence on fashion sustainability and working conditions in UK garment industry
This is Transform Trade's (under its former name Traidcraft Exchange) submission to the UK Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee.
Asia Garment Hub
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May 04, 2023
Impact of global clothing retailer's unfair practices on Bangladesh suppliers during COVID-19
This research investigated the impact of global fashion retailers and brands unfair practices on Bangladeshi suppliers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Research in 2020-21 on the impact of Covid-19 on garment workers in Bangladesh found that workers, particularly women workers,...
Asia Garment Hub
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May 04, 2023