"As the secondhand fashion market grows, more mature resale markets in automotive and consumer electronics can offer lessons on how resale drives consumer engagement, affects brand positioning and may ...
"The International Apparel Federation (IAF) is the world’s leading federation for apparel manufacturers, (SME) brands, their associations, and the supporting industry. IAF’s membership now includes ap ...
"Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking to Orsola de Castro, co-founder of Fashion Revolution, for the Start Somewhere mini-series on Clubhouse. Orsola is a true powerhouse and I loved liste ...
"A young woman, who works at a readymade garment factory, has reportedly been gang-raped by several men in the Muradpur area of Dhaka. Police arrested two men accused, in a case filed over the rape, s ...
"Will vaccinating garment workers help? Bangladesh aims to inoculate the majority of its population by 2022 and has so far vaccinated around 3%. Last week nearly 29,000 garment workers from factories ...
"Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has sent letters to the ambassadors of the United States of America and the European Union, requesting them to assist for rapid vacc ...
"A worker at one of the factories on Boohoo's list of approved manufacturers claims her boss has found a new way to avoid paying staff the legal minimum wage. Workers are still being exploited in Leic ...
"A National Board of Revenue's (NBR's) temporary permission to shift import-laden containers from the Chattogram port to private inland container depots (ICDs) as a decongestion effort seems to have b ...
"The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) yesterday urged the government to allow them to reopen all factories, including export-oriented industries, citing that export m ...
"State Minister for Labour Munnojan Sufian on Thursday urged all factory owners including readymade garment (RMG) not to announce any of their units lay-off and terminate any workers amid the ongoing ...
"Incomes increased from Rs17.500 to Rs25,000 [$154.07]. The businessmen in Sindh particularly of Karachi are ‘highly aggrieved and perturbed’ by the Sindh Government decision to increase the minimum w ...
"A large-scale chemical leak at a factory in the Houston area killed two people and hospitalized 30 people, officials said. A leak that began at the La Porte Complex on Tuesday night released about 1 ...
"The accord, put in place after the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, could expire despite evidence that it protects worker safety — that’s why brands are pursuing alternatives. An agreement that led to meani ...
"Eight provinces, most of which border Thailand, will be under a 14-day lockdown, starting from July 29 until Aug. 12. [...] The eight provinces are: Koh Kong, Pursat, Battambang, Pailin, Banteay Mean ...
"Bangladeshi human rights defender Kalpona Akter wrote an open letter to European Commissioners Didier Reynders and Thierry Breton who are jointly working on a legislative proposal on Sustainable Corp ...
"Anita Dongre’s ode to heirloom Indian crafts, Zubair Kirmani’s quest to revive Ladakhi pashmina and other crafts economy news. Earlier this week, the Mumbai-based designer Anita Dongre launched a new ...
"Myanmar is at risk of becoming a super-spreader Covid state that fuels outbreaks across the region, the UN special rapporteur for the country has warned as he urged the security council to call for ...
"A few months ago, when shop stewards from the IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the Tanzania Union of Industrial and Commercial Workers (TUICO), visited the Sunflag Tanzania textile and garment fac ...
"In the first part of his monthly column, Oliver Balch looks at a series of damning reports on a sector that is trying to play up its green efforts, from plastics content to human rights Fashion thriv ...
"Cambodia’s Labour Ministry has signed an agreement with the US-based Solidarity Center, which will focus on protecting workers’ rights in sectors such as garment manufacturing. The NGO, formerly know ...
