COVID-19 - Poverty: "Hunger in the Apparel Supply Chain" of Worker Rights Consortium (WRC): Due to reduced wages and job losses due to the crisis, it is becoming increasingly difficult for textile workers to buy nutritious food; 80% of respondents with children (from nine countries in the Global South) stated that they currently have to skip meals or reduce the amount or quality of food; many of those who did not lose their jobs had to take out loans to buy food because of the wage cuts; Textile alliance companies Adidas and H&M They were (among others) among the most frequently mentioned brands for which the respondents produced(t)en.
COVID-19 - Wages: "Global Wage Report 2020/21" (PDF file) the International laboratory organization (ILO): The crisis has depressed global salaries - women and low-income earners are particularly affected; in the Asia-Pacific region Bangladesh The Biggest Case in Minimum Wages
COVID-19 - child labour: "Hidden and Vulnerable: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child, Forced and Bonded Labor" (PDF file) by GoodWeave: The crisis is increasing child labour and forced labour in South Asia
Organic Cotton & climate crisis: "Moral Fiber - The Cool Option for a Heating Planet" (PDF file) from the Environmental justice Foundation: will be examined Organic cotton It is currently the only solution that enables mass consumption without further exacerbating the climate crisis.
Fast Fashion and Climate Impacts: "Limited shelf life? Why the Fast Fashion Model is under strain" (PDF file) by Federated Hermes: The investment company has investigated in case studies what Adidas, H&M and Primark to reduce the environmental footprint of their products and move towards a circular economy. Progress based on impact-oriented benchmarks is seen as an essential condition for future investments.
Uighurs: Opinion of the Multi-stakeholder initiative Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) made by an NGO coalition "Call to action on human rights abuses in the Uyghur Region in the apparel and textile sector": While ETI stresses that it may be difficult for companies to fully meet the terms of the call, the basic statement is still supportive of Call: "While it must be the decision of each business individually whether to sign up to the Call to Action, ETI strongly encourages every business that feels it can to do so. ETI will work with its member businesses to support them to sign – and will support those that have signed to implement the Brand Commitment as quickly and effectively as possible." There is no similar statement from the Textile Alliance so far.
Risk for Bangladeshi suppliers: The New Age of Bangladesh reported that: Companies switch to alternative import methods: As a result, suppliers find themselves in still uncertain contractual relationships than before the crisis and put the liquidity of the suppliers even more at risk because the suppliers bear an even higher risk. Passend to this: Mostafiz Uddin speaks in his new Think piece When a brand goes bust—as several have during this pandemic—it is always the suppliers and their workers who suffer the most. As suppliers, we cannot depend on the goodwill of brands. It has become clear now that our industry needs binding legislation and supply chain regulation to hold brands to account for respecting human rights in their supply chain.
EU support in Bangladesh: One million textile workers in Bangladesh who have lost their jobs temporarily or permanently as a result of the crisis will receive their jobs from December onwards. €93 million in EU support; Only terminated workers from factories who are members of the industry associations are recorded BGMEA and BKMEA are.
Living wages & campaign work: Contribution to the discussion by IndustriALL "Changing the balance of power in the textile and garment industry" on ways to achieve a new balance of power in the textile industry in order to achieve living wages - and what role campaigns play in this.
Companies in the TB: This Business and Human Rights Resource Center published Apparel Company dashboards: It collects information on a total of 275 textile companies, including how these companies have completed various benchmarks. Gibchmarkt became, among other things, the textile alliance companies Adidas, ALDI Nord, ALDI Süd, C&A, Esprit, Gerry Weber, H&M, Hugo Boss, KiK, Lidl, Otto (+Bonprix), Primark, Puma, S.Oliver, Takko, Tchibo
