Country profile: Moldova This country profile sums up the state of the art of the garment industry in Moldova focusing on wages, economic role of the garment industry, brand practices, gender discrimination and workers’ rights violations. Mehr Details
Feasibility of conditional design: Organizing a circular textile value chain by design principles In recent years, the increased awareness of the need for conservation of resources and environmental sustainability has brought a focus on the potential for a circular economy in textiles and fashion. Commissioned by the Region of Västra Götaland, a number of investigations were carried out during 2015-2019, related to redesign, reuse and recycling of textile materials and products, at the Swedish School of Textiles and Science Park Borås. Mehr Details
The Global Slavery Index “The Walk Free Foundation’s Global Slavery Index has developed world leading research to provide measurement of the size and scale of modern slavery, as well as assess country-level vulnerability and governmental responses. Together with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Walk Free Foundation developed the joint Global Estimates of Modern Slavery.” The Global Slavery Index is published every one to two years and provides statistical data and analysis on slavery. Cotton as a raw material is a relevant product, the value chain of global fashion production is also regularly addressed. Mehr Details
Small hands – big profit Child labour – What unimagined suffering is hidden in our world of goods Child labour is prohibited internationally. Nevertheless, millions of children worked under the most unworthy conditions for our products, e.g. for jewelry, carpets and natural stones. Child labour expert Benjamin Pütter has travelled through India more than 80 times, the country with the most child labourers. He reports about girls and boys, some of whom already have to work full-time at the age of five, denounces the machinations of unscrupulous company bosses and reveals why we also unknowingly buy products from child labour. Mehr Details
Working on a warmer planet - The impact of heat stress on labour productivity and decent work By 2030 the equivalent of more than 2 per cent of total working hours worldwide is projected to be lost every year, either because it is too hot to work or because workers have to work at a slower pace. In Southern Asia and Western Africa the resulting productivity loss may even reach 5 per cent. Yet, heat stress is often accompanied by other challenges as it is more prevalent in countries with decent work deficits, such as a lack of social protection and high rates of informality and working poverty. Excessive heat levels aggravate inequality between rich and poor countries, and between population groups within the same country. The report shows the consequences of heat stress for different countinents and provides solutions approaches for different stakeholders. Mehr Details
