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Between claim and reality: Private control systems in Bangladesh's textile industry

What effect do social and ecological certifications and standards actually have on the working and living conditions of textile workers? A new study by the Bangladesh Institute for Labour Studies (BILLS) investigates this

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Clothes radio: New podcast episode on labour rights in Bangladesh with Camelia Hasan and Carmen Maiwald

24 April marks the anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza, a building in Bangladesh that collapsed in 2013 and killed more than 1,100 textile workers. Since then, it has been a date that continues to shape the global

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FEMNET carries the Just Fashion Manifesto! For a fair fashion system!

Together with 200+ allies we carry the Just Fashion Manifesto. We share the vision of a fair fashion system that puts people above profits. Fashion can never be sustainable if the people who make our clothes are underpaid,...

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Knowing rights - enforcing rights

The app, which we create with our partner organization BLAST, supports in rights violations and helps to enforce those. Read...

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Press review autumn 2018

04.10.2018: "Fair and chic has a lobby: Fashion show and more at Fair Week
FEMNET organized the fair fashion show in Bonn
Rheinische Advertisement pages

10.10.2018: "FEMNET presents petition: Bonn Association denounces working conditions in India
Closing of the petition on #WerPasstAuf, the campaign work continues
General-Anzeiger Bonn

19.11.2018: "Sustainable clothing: Eco-Clothing Wanted for the Masses
Cooperation between FEMNET and the Cologne School of Journalism on the occasion of the FEMNET conference in Hamburg
taz Ökobiz

25.11.2018: "Bangladesh throws out inspectors - fashion industry threatens to relapse into old times"
Interview with Gisela Burckhardt
Handelsblatt

29.11.2018: "A verdict against KiK would be immensely important"
Radio interview with Gisela Burckhardt
NDR Info

07.12.2018: Exploitation in the fashion industry. The real price for our clothes.
Interview with Gisela Burckhardt
Deutsche Welle

13.12.2018: This woman wants to hold Kik accountable.
Quotes by Gisela Burckhardt
Perspective daily