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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...
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January 10, 2024
What Bangladesh can do to protect the rights of migrant workers in destination countries
The Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment requires enhanced human resources and increased capacity to provide robust assistance to distressed migrant workers in destination countries
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January 10, 2024
2024 Fashion Trends: Sustainability, Individuality, and Ethical Practices Take Center Stage
As we usher in 2024, the fashion industry is embracing a significant shift towards sustainability, individuality, and innovation, marking a departure from the fast-fashion trends of the past. A
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January 10, 2024
Fashion’s Carbon Countdown: Rethinking Overproduction
Overproduction has been fashion’s constant companion for years. For a long time, overproduction was financially feasible due to (inhumanely) cheap raw materials, labour, and transport. Combined with high mark-ups, fashion found a way to make overproduction profitable, albeit at a...
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January 10, 2024
Legislation is coming for fashion’s supply chains. Are you ready?
This year is set to be a tipping point for fashion’s supply chains, as brands and suppliers race to comply with incoming legislation and meet 2025 sustainability goals.
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January 10, 2024
COP28 call on fashion brands and lawmakers
The Fashion Revolution initiative is calling on fashion brands to set robust climate targets in consultation with their suppliers and on policymakers to hold them to account on decarbonisation. The call to action was issued to coincide with the COP28 climate summit in Dubai which...
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December 05, 2023
Surge in interest for Digital Product Passport ahead of mandate
New research shared by the blockchain and web3 solutions developer, Protokol, claims there is a surge in interest for the upcoming regulation mandating Digital Product Passports (DPPs), with its media coverage up 413% compared to the same period last year.
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December 05, 2023
Our Take On Fashion’s Forecast for 2024
We pick up three key themes from McKinsey's State of Fashion 2024 report, analysing AI’s pervasive influence in the industry; the climate emergency and fashion’s future with sustainability; and how brands, retailers and suppliers can prepare for fashion’s economic outlook for the...
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December 05, 2023
Why Fashion Needs to ‘Double Down’ on Reducing Virgin Synthetics
One way to help the fashion industry reduce its emissions in line with the 1.5-degree Celsius pathway? Making the right material choices, according to Textile Exchange.
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December 05, 2023
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