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December 2021 Covid Blog

This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.

New union-employer agreement in Sri Lanka addresses key worker rights issues

Today, garment worker unions in Sri Lanka have signed a ground-breaking agreement with employer association Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) in which both parties reached an understanding about how to address vital workplace issues for garment workers, especially during the pandemic.

German shirt brand Olymp urged to stop wage theft in Croatia

This week, activists all over Germany deliver a letter from former workers of the Orljava factory to Olymp stores across the country. The activists and workers hold the German brand to account for the wage theft of 172 workers. The Orljava factory in Croatia produced business shirts for the German high quality shirt brand Olymp for over 50 years, until it stopped all orders after the covid pandemic hit.

Statement of solidarity with workers from Sindh province, Pakistan

Garment workers, trade unions and labour rights organisations of the Sindh province in Pakistan are fighting to receive the 40% increase to the minimum wage that they are legally entitled to.

Solidarity Statement from CCC South East Asia Coalition

On Human Rights Day 2021, CCC South East Asia Coalition has issued this statement, standing in solidarity withgarment workers and all those in the South East Asia region fighting for their human rights, freedom and democracy.

Letter to Von der Leyen: time for the EU to get serious about ending corporate abuse

On Wednesday, 8 December, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice and 46 other civil society and trade union organisations sent an open letter to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asking her to show that the EU is serious about addressing corporate abuse, following last week’s news that the sustainable corporate governance draft law has been delayed to 2022.

November 2021 Covid Blog

This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.

CSO's call on EU to ensure gender responsive law on human rights due diligence

On International Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Day, 61 CSO's call on the EU Commissioners to ensure gender responsive law on human rights due diligence and corporate accountability. Today is a day to pay tribute to the women who defend human rights and the environment across the world. Gender-responsive corporate accountability and due diligence rules are urgently needed to properly address these deep-seated inequalities.

Garment and home-textile brands sourcing from Bangladesh must sign on to the International Accord

Two months since the launch of the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry, 150 garment and home textile brands have signed on to this life-saving agreement. Several of the most well-known brands in the world have however shown no intention to join this agreement that works towards keeping their workers safe. From this week on, organisations in the Clean Clothes Campaign network therefore commenced a public campaign against those brands that have failed to sign the Accord, starting with Levi’s.

October 2021 Covid Blog

This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.

Daw Myo Aye released from prison in Myanmar

The leader of Solidarity Trade Unions of Myanmar (STUM) has been released by the military.

Who's your feminism for?

Join us for an online event exploring gender in the garment industry.

September 2021 Covid blog

This blog aims to collect information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked. The blog is updated three times a week.

Webinar: Labour rights abuses in Myanmar since the military coup - a focus on the garment sector

Join our webinar on 13th October as we bring together experts on Myanmar, labour rights and the garment industry to reflect on ways brands and the international community can support labour and human rights.

Call for the EU to suspend preferential EBA trade tariffs from Myanmar

CCC's stance on the ongoing situation in Myanmar.

Call to release Daw Myo Aye on humanitarian grounds

Union leader Daw Myo Aye's health deteriorates in Myanmar prison.

Fashion Checker relaunched

New data on Fashion Checker shows transparency remains key to hold brands accountable as workers, unions and campaigners call on brands to not leave workers in destitution during the pandemic.

Webinar: the European Union's role in ending gender based violence

In the global textile production industry, more than 80% of workers are women, and 75% of them regularly experience gender-based violence in the factories. The Clean Clothes Campaign is organising a webinar on September 30th to discuss concrete legislation measures to improve life and working conditions for female garment workers worldwide.

CSOs and labour unions call for the EU to confront systemic flaws of private social auditing and glaring accountability gaps

Evoking collective memory of the fire that caused over 250 preventable deaths nine years ago, 15 human and labour rights organisations are jointly urging EU policymakers to address the systemic issues related to the role of social auditing in that disaster as well as in many others.

On eve of deadly factory fire anniversary, Pakistani labour activists urge action for worker safety

On the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Karachi, labour leaders in Pakistan call upon apparel and textile brands to ensure that factories in their country are made safe. With the start of the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Garment and Textile Industry last week, there is now a concrete avenue to address factory safety in the country. Labour leaders stress the urgency of swiftly expanding the Accord programme to Pakistan.

Announcement: 9th anniversary of Ali Enterprises factory fire: the new International Accord and Pakistan

Clean Clothes Campaign is inviting journalists to a media briefing on 9 September, ahead of the ninth anniversary of the deadly Ali Enterprises factory fire, which killed over 250 workers in Pakistan. The briefing will focus on the opportunity to expand upon the safety work of the Accord to bring life-saving changes to workplace safety in Pakistan in light of the newly concluded International Accord for Health and Safety in the Garment and Textile Industry, and the failure of private social auditing systems.

August 2021 Covid blog

This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.

Major apparel brands sign new safety Accord, others turn their backs on workers

Today, the new International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry, signed by 77 international apparel brands, takes effect as the successor agreement to the Bangladesh Accord. Clean Clothes Campaign urges all apparel and textile brands that have not yet signed the new Accord to do so immediately, to ensure the work in Bangladesh can continue and work in other countries can start.

Over 50 organisations call on brands, governments and employers in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to keep workers safe

Garment workers' lives are put at risk by exempting workers from lockdown measures and making them work at full capacity in garment factories to meet orders of brands headquartered in countries with high vaccination rates. Currently we see this unfolding in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh during the wave of the delta variant. Over 50 organisations from around the world are urging brands, governments, and employers to take immediate action.

NGO signatories to Bangladesh Accord welcome new binding worker safety agreement

Today, apparel brands and labour unions announced agreement on a new International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry, thereby preserving, extending, and expanding the model pioneered by the Bangladesh Accord for protecting worker safety. The non-governmental organization signatories (known as witness signatories) to the Bangladesh Accord – Clean Clothes Campaign, Worker Rights Consortium, Maquila Solidarity Network, and Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum – issued the following statement:

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