"Workers protest against wage arrears of a leather product factory in Guangzhou, Guangdong." From China Labour Bulletin's strike map. ...
2023
""Brands want the products very quickly and very cheap". This quote from a Bulgarian manager of a garment manufacturer is emblematic of garment production in Europe: small and fast orders – cheap, wit ...
"A garment worker named Yasmin Hossain (25) was killed when a passenger bus ran over her on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Manikganj's Saturia upazila. The accident took place at Nayadingi bus stand area ...
"From vertical integration to working with Indigenous communities, Peruvian brands are building sustainable businesses, raising international awareness in the process." ...
"The speakers made their grievance at the discussion on ‘Workplace Safety and Workers’ Protection’ jointly organised by Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust and Safety and Rights society at the Cen ...
"Many clothing brands, mostly from the US, have not joined the Accord on Health and Safety in Bangladesh and Pakistan a decade after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh that killed o ...
"According to the news channel Labor Info Cn, many electronics factories in the eastern, coastal areas have reduced the number of workers needed and cut wages. [...] An account called “Workers’ Platfo ...
"Sheep Inc. was founded by Edzard van der Wyck (pictured above left) and Michael Wessely (pictured above right) in 2019. After years of trial and error, they eventually found sustainable alchemy and b ...
"Carolin Handschuh runs her own online shop Missforty and also sells her range "for women in their prime" on the marketplaces Amazon, Ebay and Otto. In the past week, clothing stores have been rather ...
"The Better Cotton initiative is piloting a number of digital and physical traceability solutions in India in a bid to boost transparency across cotton supply chains." ...
"The EU Green Deal offers many opportunities for the industry, the new guidelines require clearer communication. Sustainability must be a top priority and it must pay off in the long term. This is one ...
"Blackhorse Lane Ateliers decided to create the UK’s first state-of-the-art sustainable R&D washing facility, after concluding that the UK was missing specialists in denim washing and finishing techni ...
"The first in a series of briefs about forced labor in the Uyghur Region of China, this brief explores the current state of knowledge about the extent and severity of the PRC’s programs of repression ...
"Nearly 25 years after it introduced laser finishing, Jeanologia builds on its Mission Zero program to eliminate 100 percent of the waste generated in the manufacturing and finishing of denim with a w ...
"The Pakistani vertically integrated denim manufacturer presented HumAIn, a 50-piece collection of artificial intelligence-generated garments made with AI Stable Diffusion, an open source AI platform. ...
"Protecting the outdoors is part of VF’s DNA. In this “How We Do It” episode, Jeannie Renée-Malone, Vice President of Global Sustainability, shares how VF’s investments across the organization enable ...
"VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel, footwear and accessories, today announced that several of its brands are releasing new product collections this year that tak ...
"The international fashion company is continuously exploring ways to improve its environmental impact. Recent results show that investment in using low-emission biofuel for ocean transport has avoided ...
"New technology which uses soundwaves to separate microplastics from wastewater has been developed by the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA)." ...
"Supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK), students from Bursa Technical University (BTU) introduced a project that offers a natural solution to Bursa's text ...