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Dossier: It's unbearable! - Textile industry in Asia

How can we make the global apparel industry socially responsible and sustainable? And what role do corporations, politicians and consumers play in this? Our dossier for this year's Anne Klein Women's Award, which goes to women's rights activist Gisela Burckhardt, is dedicated to the conditions in textile production in Cambodia, India and Bangladesh.
The dossier contains the following contributions:

  • introduction
  • Bangladesh’s textile sector – three years after Rana Plaza
  • "The German government needs to get in touch with trade unions" - Interview with Yang Sophorn, President of Cambodia
  • Alliance of Trade Unions Working Conditions
  • Children as camp coolies in Tamil Nadu
  • Seamstresses in the Poverty Trap
  • What to do?
  • Germany's contribution to sustainable textile production
  • Rethinking global textile production
  • A historic opportunity - Interview with Gisela Burckhardt, FEMNET, on the Textile Alliance

Scope: Internet dossier
Reference: Accessible free of charge at the Heinrich Böll Foundation.