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CSDDD Guide to Transposition and Implementation for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
The CSDDD Guide to Transposition and Implementation for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), published by the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) in collaboration with eight other NGOs in November 2024, provides NGOs, workers' organizations, and activists with an overview of how the directive’s text can be improved to strengthen protections for rights-holders, close accountability gaps for companies, and foster real change for workers, trade unions, communities, and other victims of corporate abuse.
BLOG - Failing workers by design: The fatal assurances of the social auditing industry
Rasul was working in the Multifabs garment factory on 3 July 2017 when he suddenly heard a loud noise and felt something hit his head.
BLOG - Is Your Brand Paying Its Share to Reduce Bangladesh Workers’ Wage Despair?
Garment worker protests, a brutal police crackdown, worker deaths, arrests, and worker repression, and finally an official minimum wage announcement that is far below living wage levels.
BLOG - Boohoo, Leicester’s factories exemplify the shady garment sector
Leicester is the UK’s garment hub, and 75% of city-wide production is for Boohoo, a brand valued at $4.3 billion. The brand has faced several allegations of workers’ rights violations over the years, with campaigners raising concerns that many of their cut-price clothes are produced under the conditions of modern slavery.
BLOG - Talk of sustainability is hollow until fashion brands pay their workers
Sustainability is the fashion buzzword brands love to promote, yet many knowingly overlook a key element: there is nothing sustainable about wage injustice that forces garment workers to live in abject poverty.
BLOG - Your Brand World Cup exploitation starts with the kits
The FIFA World Cup has been built on a decade of human rights violations: whichever way you look, it’s workers from the global South who are exploited.
Country profile Romania (2019)
Respecting Rights or Ticking Boxes?
Legislating Human Rights Due Diligence: Momentum to enact mandatory human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation is building around the world. Such legislation is necessary to ensure corporations respect human rights and that victims of corporate abuse have access to justice and remedy. This paper identifies 12 key interpretations of the norms that legislators must get right when establishing HRDD obligations.
Amidst Covid-19 Crisis, Untested Industry Group Assumes Safety Responsibilities for Bangladesh Garment Factories Despite Concerns
The witness signatories to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in this brief from October 2020 express concerns about the functioning of the RMG Sustainability Council which has taken up the work of the Accord Bangladesh office on 1 June 2020.
An Intersectional Approach: Challenging discrimination in the garment industry (2022)
This paper serves as a basis to frame and inform the Clean Clothes Campaign’s work on discrimination and develop a holistic intersectional approach to challenge discrimination and structural inequalities in the industry. By defining the key concepts, and collecting existing research and data on discrimination, we will identify the current gaps in knowledge and build a strategy to inform our research, advocacy and campaigning to ensure that our work responds to inequality and is inclusive of all garment workers. This paper should be viewed alongside the Global Strategic Framework #2, as a foundation for how intersectionality and inclusion will be embedded within the mission of the CCC Global Network.
MODEL ARBITRATION CLAUSES FOR THE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES UNDER ENFORCEABLE BRAND AGREEMENTS
Drawing from lessons learned in the implementation of agreements such as the Bangladesh Accord and the Fair Food programme, CCC, ILRF, GLJ and WRC developed model arbitration clauses addressing the challenge of resolving disputes among parties concerning their interpretation and application of a binding agreement. This document proposes dispute resolution mechanism for Enforceable Brand Agreements that aim to be fair, affordable, enforceable, efficient and transparent.
Bangladesh minimum wage struggle for 23,000 Tk
This Clean Clothes Campaign background document from August 2023 documents the need for a 23,000 Tk minimum wage and explains the Bangladesh wage revision process.
Mind the Gap. Decent Work Report on RMG workers in Bangladesh
This report from the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies from January 2023 documents the need for a significant wage increase for Bangladesh's garment workers in order to make ends meet.
Breaking Point
In this report, published July 2021, Clean Clothes Campaign conducted interviews with 49 garment workers in the supply chains of H&M, Nike and Primark in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Indonesia. The interviews show that the Coronavirus-induced crisis continues to have a devastating impact on the wages, working conditions, and labour rights of garment workers.
Made In Japan report
Report on migrant garment workers in Japan’s state-supported Technical Internship Training Program (TITP) are subjected to widespread labour violations including poverty pay, debt bondage, enforced overtime, and inadequate and crowded living and working conditions, and fears grow for their safety during the Coronavirus outbreak.
Still Un(der)paid
The crisis is far from over for garment workers during the pandemic. This Clean Clothes Campaign research from July 2021 shows that garment workers globally are owed 11.85 billion USD in unpaid income and severance from March 2020 to March 2021.
CCC Turkey COVID research report
Research carried out by CCC Turkey into the impact of the pandemic on the garment and textile industry
Out of the shadows: A spotlight on exploitation in the fashion industry
Our new report brings the data from the Fashion Checker transparency tool to life, detailing the stark contrast between fashion brands' claims and the reality of their supply chains.
Will women workers benefit from living wages? A gender-sensitive approach to living wage benchmarking in global garment and footwear supply chains
The global garment and footwear industry relies heavily on the work of women, who represent up to 80% of its global workforce. The current living wage debate presents both opportunities and risks for the millions of women workers in this industry. This paper argues that it is imperative to adopt a gender-sensitive approach in the living wage discourse, and to look at the implications that such an approach has on the methodology of calculating a living wage and on the measures to implement it.
Another wage is possible: A cross-border base living wage in Europe.
We put forward a cross-border living wage proposal for European production countries and explain why national governments keep legal wages below the poverty line. We detail how we calculate a living wage and the human rights violations the garment industry is founded on. Brands and retailers have built their wealth by under paying their suppliers for decades. Read more about how they can end exploitation in their supply chains.
The Europe Floor Wage Benchmark
A Living Wage in Central, East and South-East Europe
Deadly safety hazards in factories supplying major international brands show the immediate need for a strong Accord Programme in Pakistan
A Clean Clothes Campaign brief that was launched today shows that deadly safety incidents and violations occur regularly in Pakistani supplier factories to major brands. These incidents highlight the immediate need for a strong expansion of the International Accord on Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry to Pakistan, as garment worker unions in Pakistan have been calling for since 2018. Every brand which has not yet signed onto the Accord, must do so immediately to protection their workers, especially brands implicated in this brief, such as Levi’s, Gap, and Kontoor brands (Lee, Wrangler).
Press kit: Unpacking the upcoming EU law to stop corporate abuse
Too many companies across the globe have been profiting from exploiting people and the planet. Many European countries are paving the way with laws to make business accountable for these types of corporate abuse, and the EU is stepping up with its own proposal. European civil society has put together this press kit, gathering insight and evidence on the upcoming proposal from the European Commission to make companies accountable – the sustainable corporate governance directive.
Exploitation made in Europe
Germany is one of the world’s largest importers and exporters of garments. German fashion brands and retailers are the primary buyers of fashion items from Ukraine and Bulgaria, as well as the second most important buyers from Croatia and Serbia. For this study, workers from different suppliers of German brands and retailers in Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria were interviewed.
A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT - A proposal for Italy, for the fashion industry and beyond
In this report we specifically address the issue of wages as the first, but not the only, urgent issue we need to act on in order to tackle the problem of in-work poverty and inequality in Italy, starting from the fashion supply chains. The concept of wage we are referring to is the floor living wage adopted by the Clean Clothes Campaign, which can be defined as the value of the net basic wage able to guarantee the worker and his/her family the satisfaction of basic needs and decent living conditions. The net basic pay is calculated without overtime bonuses, before incentives and allowances, and after taxes, taking into account only monetary disbursements.