"The Fashion Sector at SustainChain has convened the industry’s greatest sustainability leaders that are making a true impact to meet the 2030 goals. Contributors like Gabriela Hearst, The Textile Exc ...
2021
"As a transport strike continues for the third day in a row over the decision to raise fuel prices, garment workers in the Savar-Ashulia industrial area were unable to catch the bus to work. As a resu ...
"bKash has relaunched its digital payroll solution to facilitate automated, easy, fast and affordable salary disbursement along with building a sustainable financial ecosystem for RMG workers. With th ...
"Kawsar Hossain (28) died when the tin roof on which he was working collapsed. The incident took place at noon on Sunday (November 7) at the Jamuna Denims factory in Konbari, Gazipur." [Ed's note: see ...
"On Sunday, the Directorate of Supply and Internal Trade in Alexandria launched massive campaign against unlicensed garment factories in the governorate. [...] The campaign resulted in the seizure of ...
"Assailants have attempted to kill the manager of a garment factory in Gazipur’s Sreepur. The attackers fired at 45-year-old Niaz Mohammad Riaz in the Kewa (Bakultala) area of Sreepur-Mawna road in th ...
"Canadian apparel company Reitmans recently cancelled a contract with a Chinese supplier after a report by CBC News showed that it was using forced North Korean labour. This comes after a series of un ...
"Twelve cotton-laden trucks waiting to enter Bangladesh were burnt in a fire at a parking lot near India's Petrapole land port -- opposite of to Benapole port. However, no casualties were reported fro ...
"The mistreatment of Karachi’s garment factory workers is hardly a new phenomenon. Working in factories that often resemble jails, these labourers, producing clothes for local and international fast f ...
"The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) President and Vice President met with Primark and its Associated British Foods (ABF) parent's leaders to discuss Primark's new w ...
"All eyes are on Glasgow, where the UN Climate Conference COP26, is currently in full swing. Could sustainability watchword ‘de-growth’ be the radical method that changes the fashion industry’s curren ...
"Woven into your clothes is a material that takes on many disguises. It may have the texture of wool, the lightness of linen or the sleekness of silk. It’s in two-thirds of our clothing – and yet most ...
"Thailand is losing ground in efforts to end human trafficking, but government officials prefer to jail trade union leaders rather than collaborate on solutions. The situation is emblematic of two dis ...
"My company commits to: 1. Support the ambition of the Paris Agreement in limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by selecting one of the two options (a or ...
"The fashion industry is raising its collective ambition with updated science-based emission reduction targets under the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action. Announced today at COP26, the rene ...
"The change was revealed at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow on Monday.. Fashion professed to amp up its emission-reduction pledges — starting with a revised Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Act ...
"US womenswear brand Amour Vert has launched a new peer-to-peer resale service to encourage customers to sell on unwanted items. Developed in collaboration with circular solutions provider Recurate, t ...
"Why fast fashion is bad: Massive corporations exploit workers and harm the environment to sell cheap clothes. That seems obvious. But is calling it out classist? Writer Maggie Zhou debunks a troublin ...
"The Leather Working Group (LWG) trade body has pledged to accelerate the traceability requirements of its LWG Leather Manufacturer Audit in a drive to ensure that its members' leather is 100 per cent ...
"At COP26, over 50 fashion and textile companies back Textile Exchange’s request for policy to incentivize the use of environmentally preferred materials Over 50 brands, suppliers, retailers, NGOs, an ...