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In January 2020, Gisela Burckhardt, Chief Executive Officer, and Sina Marx, Foreign Projects Officer, travelled to India and Bangladesh. We are regularly at our Local partner organisations, to plan together for the future and to convince us that your donations will arrive where they are needed. Here we want to share some personal impressions with you.

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Joint PRESS RELEASE by Initiative Supply Chain Act, CorA Network, ECCHR, BUND

Berlin. A supply chain law in Germany is feasible – for companies as well as for legislators. This is shown by a legal opinion of the Initiative Supply Chain Act, prepared by legal experts of the alliance with the support of lawyer Robert Grabosch. Such a law is intended to oblige companies in Germany to better protect people and the environment in their global business.

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Organizations hand over more than 2,000 signed protest postcards and open letter.

For their outstanding achievements in the field of Deportation of human rights responsibility Several organizations presented the award to the federal government last week. ‘The Golden Exploiter’. The satirical action was Alliance for Fair Trade, the CorA network, the Supply Chain Act initiative, the CCC and WEED carried out.

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FEMNET has published the most important results of a new study in German

Textile companies have made great progress in recent years in disclosing information about their supply chains. This is shown in a report published in December 2019 by an alliance of trade unions, human rights groups and labour rights initiatives, including the Clean Clothes Campaign.
The short version has been translated into German by FEMNET. The report is an update of the 2017 company survey.

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FEMNET has been a member of the Alliance for Legal Security for Political Will-Making since 2019. The long-term goal of this alliance is a modern non-profit right, because those who deal with political education and make political demands are in danger of losing their non-profit status.

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The Alliance for Sustainable Textiles makes gender-based violence in the workplace the new annual theme for 2020. FEMNET has made itself strong for this, because an evaluation of the existing roadmaps (annual plans) of the member companies had shown that not a single manufacturer has taken explicit measures against women discrimination in its supply chain.

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On November 24, 2012, a fire broke out in the Tazreen factory in Bangladesh at 6.30 p.m. Of the more than 1000 workers, 600 were still in the factory. There were no escape exits into the open and the windows were barred. Some workers were able to rip the fans out of the window and jump through the gap from a great height into the depths. 125 workers died in the fire, during the jump from above and later as a result, 150 were injured, some seriously.

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Every year since 1991, women's rights organisations have called for a 16-day campaign against violence against women on 25 November. From the International Day Against Violence against Women to the 10th. In December, International Human Rights Day, the campaign draws attention to violence against women as one of the most widespread human rights violations.

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On November 15, 2019, Amazon published names, addresses, and more details of over 1,000 suppliers on its website. The fact that the world's largest online retailer is taking this important first step clearly shows that the International transparency campaign effect shows. However, the published list is so far difficult to find, not filterable and still too inaccurate to find out which types of products are produced in the listed plants. Included are producers of clothing, electrical appliances and household goods of the Amazon own brand.

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A response from the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) to Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of H&M.

Recently, Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of H&M, warned in an interview Terrible social consequences. when consumers turn their backs on fast fashion in the face of the climate crisis[i]. In his distorted logic This leads to more poverty, as it puts economic growth and jobs at risk. Persson's claim that reducing consumption threatens the eradication of poverty must be contradicted. His claims are at best misguided and at worst fraudulentThey do not recognise the enormous social and environmental consequences of the global apparel industry.

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