"Through their own projects and together through pre-competitive industry-wide collaboration, textile industry firms such as Accelerating Circularity, Fashion for Good, Global Fashion Agenda’s Circula ...
"FashionUnited has outlined some of the most notable elements from Stockholm Fashion Week, from its support of upcoming creators to its ability to dismantle fast fashion production. Reuse: circular fa ...
"This next blog in our series considers how to apply learning on gender from initiatives in agriculture to the global fashion industry, using the Women Working Worldwide and Banana Link’s Gender Equit ...
"Fulgar, an Italian specialist in the synthetic fiber sector, has recently started a European-based partnership with chemical group BASF. The result of the partnership is the new sustainable Q-Cycle y ...
"The enactment of a French law that prohibits the destruction of unsold goods (namely, non-food products) is forcing brands to look more carefully at the volumes they are producing in order stay withi ...
"India’s largest garment company has paid out an estimated £3m in unpaid wages to tens of thousands of workers, after two years of refusing to pay the legal minimum wage. Last month Shahi Exports, whi ...
"Jessica Schreiber is a self proclaimed trash nerd and passionate about waste prevention. She's the founder of Fabscrap where they are rethinking commercial textile waste by providing convenient picku ...
"Four migrant workers died after a fire broke out a textile factory in the major Turkish city of Istanbul on Friday afternoon. Three of the victims were Syrians, while the nationality of the fourth vi ...
"The day of reckoning for the fashion industry over its history of waste and its outsized carbon footprint just got a lot closer, while a recent survey of brand executives suggests most have yet to ge ...
"The workers, who were organized in the Leather Weaving and Textile Workers' Union (Deriteks), started protests because of a low pay raise. At the end of the 3rd day, the employer accepted the request ...
"AgroShift, a local agro-technology based start-up, has been ranked among the six finalists in the competition 'Stitch for RMG: Global Innovation Challenge' jointly organized by H&M Foundation, BRAC a ...
1500 workers from Bogart Lingerie (Yangon Ltd) Myanmar are being forced to work over time without pay. The factory produces for brands including Skims. [Ed's note: see entry for Bogart in the Open App ...
"Bangladesh is currently building back from the COVID-19 crisis. The government, in partnership with employers’ and workers’ organizations and development partners, is working to overcome the challeng ...
"Workers of a garment factory at Tongi in Gazipur have blocked the road at the embankment in the border area of Ashulia demanding arrears of wages. At around 4:55 pm on Sunday (February 13), about 150 ...
"MiB (Mapped in Bangladesh), a 5-year project to develop a digital database of RMG workers, has mapped and compiled the data of 3,630 export-oriented ready-made garment (RMG) factories in Bangladesh, ...
"A fire broke out at a shoe factory in east Kolkata's Phoolbagan area on Sunday, officials said. The blaze, which broke out around 4.35pm, was contained by 6 pm with the help of three fire tenders, th ...
"Michael Kors retails its organic cotton and recycled polyester women’s zip-up hoodies for $25 more than its conventional cotton hoodies. Urban Outfitters sells organic sweatpants that are priced $46 ...
"After elections in Morocco earlier this year, a new coalition government is in power. Trade unions had been actively protesting the policies of the former government led by the Islamist Justice and D ...
"The ministry said transportation of workers, mostly by means of cargo trucks, will have to change and road traffic law enforcement will be strengthened. The ministry said that as of January 2021, it ...
"A report by a six-member fact-finding team on the violent clash between migrant workers of Kitex Garments and the police at Kizhakkambalam on Christmas eve has indicted the company of treating its wo ...
