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Demand to establish complaint boxes, anti-abuse committee in every factory
The OSHE Foundation (Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation), an organisation that works on labour issues, has placed some demands in order to end violence against women in the leather industry and factories in Bangladesh.
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November 28, 2023
Five ways to raise garment worker wages
After many months of negotiations, the national minimum wage for garment workers in Bangladesh was formally announced last week—Tk 12,500 ($114). This has been met with mixed reactions.
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November 28, 2023
H&M first to help meet workers' higher wages
Swedish retailer H&M has become the first major fashion company to increase the prices it pays for orders from Bangladesh to reflect the new increase in the minimum wage for garment workers. The new minimum wage of BDT 12,500 ($114) a month represents a 56% increase from the BDT...
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November 28, 2023
The fashion exec’s guide to COP28
Your essential wayfinder for the UN’s flagpole climate change conference, by veterans from the sustainable fashion space.
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November 28, 2023
Fashion brands putting millions of workers at risk with gaps on human rights and gender equality, shows new research
The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) assessed 55 of the world’s most influential apparel companies, including Adidas, Fast Retailing, Kering, SHEIN, and VF Corporation, in its 2023 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and Gender Benchmark.
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November 22, 2023
VN garment export sees light, pinning hope on greening effort
Le Tien Truong, chairman of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group, said that the demand will improve overall in 2024 but the improvement will not be very significant.
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November 17, 2023
Unions in Bangladesh demand revision of new minimum wage
Minimum wage protests in Dhaka continue as workers’ demand of a higher minimum wage remains unmet. Police has been violently breaking down the protests and to date four workers have been killed and several others seriously injured. Police has registered over 60 criminal cases, in...
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November 17, 2023
Signal: How technology can help enforce forced labour laws
The USFIA's Apparel Importers Trade and Transportation Conference revealed how the US Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act is being enforced and the role technology can play in proving the source of imported apparel and textiles.
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November 17, 2023
Gender Discrimination in Fashion Supply Chains: What Should Companies Report?
Freedom from discrimination based on gender is a universal human right and one of the core labor standards of the ILO. It appears in several global instruments: the ILO’s 1958 Convention 111 (Discrimination in Employment and Occupation), its 2019 Convention 190 on Violence and...
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November 17, 2023
Is Your Brand Paying Its Share to Reduce Bangladesh Workers’ Wage Despair?
Garment worker protests, a brutal police crackdown, worker deaths, arrests and repression, and finally, an official minimum wage announcement that is far below living wage levels. For anyone who follows Bangladesh’s minimum wage negotiations, it’s like watching a preventable...
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November 17, 2023
Vestiaire Collective bans H&M, Zara, Gap in fight against fast fashion waste
Pre-loved fashion platform Vestiaire Collective bans 30 fashion brands from its platform as part of its three-year plan to stop selling fast fashion items altogether and tackle the industry's waste problem.
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November 17, 2023
Tech won't save fashion
“There is one innovation which doesn’t require technology that we haven’t tried: treating each other as equals.” I have always loved this quote from my old boss and mending hero Orsola de Castro, because its simplicity reminds me of how much time we all spend intellectualising...
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November 14, 2023
How to be like Patagonia: 3 lessons in responsible business
Key takeaways from Patagonia's first 50 years in operation, including insights from Vincent Stanley, director of Patagonia philosophy.
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November 14, 2023
Fair Labor: 2022 Annual Public Report
In 2022, the world began to emerge from the chaos of a global pandemic that wreaked havoc on farm and factory workers worldwide. During this transition to “the new normal,” one core question remained: How could FLA members and staff continue to translate uncertainty and change...
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November 09, 2023
Australia's fashion waste is a growing problem, but these scientists say they have an answer
It looks and feels like children's playdough, but this colourful clay being made in a lab at Deakin University in Geelong, is actually old clothing. For the past five years, scientists at the university's Institute for Frontier Materials have been trialling different methods to...
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November 09, 2023
Source Fashion 2024 to debut three new sourcing countries
UK responsible sourcing show Source Fashion expects to double in size in 2024 with more than 320 exhibitors from around the world, including three new sourcing destinations.
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November 09, 2023
Sustainable alternatives key to combating fast fashion's environmental toll, study finds
For the last three decades, the advent of "fast fashion" has disrupted the traditional fashion cycles by capitalizing on retailers' and consumers' responsiveness to the novelty of new fashion trends. Some fast fashion retailers go as far as delivering new apparel designs every...
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November 09, 2023
Agreement On International Accord Framework For Health And Safety Programs
Global brands and trade unions have renewed the International Accord to enhance health and safety in supply chains in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and other countries in the future.
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November 09, 2023
New partnership to scale up India's textile recycling
Textile waste management specialist Reverse Resources (RR) and the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) have launched a programme to scale up textile-to-textile recycling in India. Established primarily to address the issue of a poorly performing waste-handling sector in the...
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November 06, 2023
Thousands of Bangladesh’s garment factory workers take to the streets demanding better wages
Thousands of garment factory workers took to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and the industrial district of Gazipur on Tuesday to demand better wages.
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November 06, 2023