"Vice President of the Lao PDR Pany Yathotou has stressed the need for garment factories to comply with measures introduced to prevent the spread of Covid-19, to ensure that workers and staff are prot ...
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"The Punjab government and stakeholders on Friday announced to start initiatives to clean the Sutlej river through an action plan. Punjab being the second largest cotton and yarn producer in the count ...
"In this second episode, we are joined by Cherie Yang from Visualist, a company using colour-based machine learning to create new pathways for designers seeking inspiration in visual databases, and Pe ...
"Some 12 percent of votes cast at Boohoo’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Friday opposed the re-election to the board of the British online fashion retailers’ co-founder and executive director Carol ...
"Denim has never had a positive reputation. As the fashion industry is making moves to becoming more sustainable, denim manufacturing has come under scrutiny for its unnecessary use of chemicals and o ...
"In a Nike store in Harbin, Heilongjiang, netizens reported products are as low as 50% off, which may not be expected in normal times. But now prices are so low, why not participate? Why not let us bu ...
Cotton farmers' income was damaged, and companies lost clients avoiding the risk of “forced labor”. Now Uyghur youth want to sue the Australian anti-China think tank responsible. [...] A group of Uygh ...
"Brandix hosted its inaugural Sustainability Summit recently, in celebration of World Environment Day 2021 which fell on June 5. The summit focused on the theme ‘Towards a Net Zero Future - Translatin ...
"Brandix, an apparel group employing over 70,000 staff worldwide is fighting a twin battle to keep workers safe and earning export revenues vital to keep the pandemic hit Sri Lanka stable, while also ...
"The annual International Labour Conference (ILC) is currently under way in Geneva discussing, among other things, countries where national legislation actively supports the violation of fundamental l ...
"Business Finland together with Finnish Textile and Fashion and Aegean Apparel Exporters’ Association organizes an event for knowledge sharing and business matching to enable co-operation between Finn ...
"Youngone Corporation, the Korean multinational conglomerate, yesterday launched the country's largest rooftop solar power plant in its Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) to meet its electricity dem ...
"Author Maxine Bédat traces the life cycle of an average pair of jeans ‘from farm to landfill’ and what she discovers makes for shocking reading Pollution spewing from Chinese denim factories, women i ...
"An analysis of county records shows that e-commerce giant Amazon has reported more than 1,700 cases at warehouse, distribution and grocery facilities in Riverside, Solano, Contra Costa, San Joaquin a ...
"Boohoo will grow its own sustainable cotton amid Western concerns about the mass production of the raw material in Xinjiang. John Lyttle, chief executive of the online fast fashion firm, revealed the ...
"Dirt, a charity launched by model-turned-activist Arizona Muse, wants fashion to focus on reparations in its sustainability efforts. Will it work? Many of fashion’s sustainability pledges look to the ...
"Unlike in many Western countries, Pride is still not celebrated widely by brands in China, though some global brands continue to distribute their rainbow-themed LGBTQI+ campaigns on Chinese channels ...
"We talk with Noah’s founders on everything from counterculture to ethical consumption and why they found the perfect partner in adidas. [...] Ethical design is a big part of the story of Noah. What d ...
"Members of the ACT initiative - including leading brands such as H&M, Zara owner Inditex and Primark - have issued guidance to protect garment workers in Myanmar who struggle to attend work because o ...
"The analysis of this survey is mainly based on primary data. It was conducted on 102 RMG employers, 301 employed RMG workers and 100 unemployed RMG workers located in Dhaka and Gazipur. Here, 76.5 pe ...