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The document provides an overview of international labour law regulations. It represents the regulations in human rights treaties of the United Nations as well as in conventions of the International Labour Organization. There is also an overview of enforcement mechanisms, including various committees, reports and complaint mechanisms.

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Turkey is one of the most important suppliers of clothing for Germany and the EU. Some of these garments are produced in southeastern Turkey, where hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees now live. In recent months, there have been indications that young Syrians in particular are employed in Turkish clothing companies. The following pages will explore the link between flight and the problematic working conditions in the Turkish textile industry.

Editorial team: Grigentin-Krämer, Sandra; Mauz, Katharina

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Remanufacturing is practiced only at a very small scale in the fashion industry, despite the increasing need for a development towards dematerialization, higher revalue addition, ways to generate a high profit margin, and at the same time create more employment. The report, based on three participatory action projects, aims to investigate how remanufacturing can be made solely industrially, for sustainable competitiveness in the fashion industry, through detailed observation of a fairly large and successfully operating remanufacturing business.

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In June 2019, the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a new Convention and Recommendation to combat violence and harassment in the workplace. While the convention recognizes the right of everyone to a world of work free from violence and harassment and is accompanied by a Recommendation that provides advice and guidance against gender-based violence (GBV), it is still a long way to put these into practice to effectively address and mitigate GBV. Ratification of the convention and, most importantly, implementation of measures to prevent and reduce GBV at the workplace and beyond are urgently needed. When looking at the garment industry, the importance to address GBV from different angles becomes evident. While both evidence for GBV as well as solutions to address abusive behavior at work exist, responsible stakeholders, including governments, brands and retailers as well as factory management, are often still reluctant to address violence and harassment proactively.

The present study is part of the multi-stakeholder partnership to decrease gender-based violence against women in the garment industry of Bangladesh and India and therefore meant to collect facts and figures on the prevalence of violence and harassment in Bangladeshi garment factories. From this data as well as earlier studies and initiatives to combat GBV, the report analyses the situations in which workers are likely to become a victim of violence and harassment, with case studies that clearly illustrate the practices and structures that are currently fostering abusive behavior against workers. The report is the outcome of a joint project between the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity (BCWS) and FEMNET in Germany, that set out to bring brands and retailers, suppliers as well as workers' rights organizations in Bangladesh to one table in order to establish a meaningful and sustainable dialogue on how to jointly address GBV in the garment sector of Bangladesh.

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Mutual capacity development is the FGG Alliance's distinct approach to capacity development, to ensure that civil society actors can speak with a loud, collective voice, have the necessary knowledge, advocacy skills and influence, and are able to undertake action freely and safely. In the latest publication, members of Fair Green and Global Alliance explained our distinct capacity development approach that can help address many of the world’s greatest problems. These problems manifest themselves most visibly and tangibly in low and lower-middle income countries, they are often rooted in global structures and systems. Therefore, solving them is not possible without global cooperation. This includes a concerted effort by strong civil society actors – located in many different places and using different types of leverage – to influence different decision-makers. Mutual capacity development based on that civil society actors can speak with a loud, collective voice, have the necessary knowledge, advocacy skills and influence, and are able to undertake action freely and safely.

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