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This study attempts to depict a complicated and multi-dimensional picture of labour standards in the GSCs of garments, footwear, and electronics within the context of international trade regimes and the national industrial development of Vietnam.

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The role of the global apparel and footwear industries has shifted far beyond meeting a basic human need. The relationship with fashion in our modern lives has had a collateral and significant impact on our planet’s resources.

As we face urgent environmental and social challenges caused by climate change and resource depletion, the efficacy of solutions will depend on the creativity, innovation and boldness so characteristic of the fashion industry. It’s time for players to change the trajectory. This report encourages actors in the industry to set ambitious, evidence-based environmental impact reduction goals to drive meaningful change to secure a more sustainable future for fashion.

With a view to drive bold Climate Action from the apparel and footwear industries, Quantis carried out a comprehensive study of the environmental impacts across both industries’ value chains. The

core objective is to inform on the current state of these industries’ environmental performance and provide robust data to inform and empower them to use a science-based approach to reduce their impact (for example, by aligning with the Science Based Targets initiative or other leading initiatives). A special focus is put on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as water impact.

Stemming from this overarching ambition, the goals of the present study were defined as follows:

• Quantify the apparel industry’s global environmental impacts across various indicators
• Assess data gaps to be addressed in further studies
• Study both historic and future data points to highlight trends and compare corresponding impact growth rates
• Provide key data-driven takeaways that can be used to promote industry-wide environmental progress of the apparel and footwear industries

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This six-sided man names the grievances in the world market factories where our clothes are sewn. Whether Asia, Latin America or Europe - the situation is unbearable everywhere, seamstresses work towards a hunger wage and find no way out of poverty. Women from Honduras, El Salvador, Cambodia and Indonesia will speak in #SAUBEREKLEIDUNG. In addition, there are clear demands on companies and tips for critical consumption.

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On 24 April 2013, the world watched in astonishment and shame as horror of the Rana Plaza building collapse was broadcast across the world’s media. This was where the race to the bottom had led the garment industry: Factories housed in unsafe buildings and workers afraid to enter a workplace with visible cracks in the walls, but even more afraid to lose their wages if they refused. The Rana Plaza collapse was a moment in which all pledged to do better and to start respecting the lives of the women and men working long hours for low pay to make our clothes. Five years on, we take stock. This memo aims to give an overview of the promises made in 2013, and what has – and has not – changed following the world’s worst ever garment factory disaster. It also serves as a guide to the excellent pieces of research that have become available at this moment of retrospection for labour rights in the garment industry.

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The textile giant Inditex, which also owns the Zara brand, likes to present itself as a transparent company that attaches particular importance to the well-being of its seamstresses. A research by Public Eye (Switzerland) on the production conditions of a symbolic Zara hoodie provides a behind-the-scenes look: dumping wages, excessive overtime, precarious employment contracts. In the end, the workers pay for the massive price pressure that the fashion group exerts on its suppliers. According to an estimate made with Clean Clothes Campaign partners, Inditex earns twice as much on each garment as all the people involved in the production combined.

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