Many companies finally join the textile alliance Press release of the Clean Clothes Campaign on the accession of the leading associations and individual companies to the Sustainable Textiles Alliance The knot in the large textile associations has burst. The majority of the associations (the Handelsverband Deutschland (HDE), the Bundesverband der deutschen Sportarktikelindustrie, the Foreign Trade Association of the German Retail Trade (AVE) and textile+mode) as well as a large number of their member companies have joined the alliance. The basis for a broad impact of the alliance has now been created by the accessions. Details Published: 03 June 2015 Read more …
1. BOYS DAY at FEMNET about Fair Clothing This year, FEMNET took part in Boys Day for the first time. An exciting experience for us as a women's organization as well as for two boys (Joshua, 13, and Ingmar, 14 years old) from two Bonn schools. The organizers of the Girls and Boys Day had chosen the date perfectly: On the occasion of the anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, FEMNET organised the ‘RanaPlaza Payup Now’ protest campaign, a great opportunity for students to experience campaign work up close. Details Published: 23 April 2015 Read more …
New cooperation project with Cividep in India, Bangalore: Education and care for children of textile factory workers Textile workers in India. Photo © CIVIDEPWith Cividep in Bangalore, South India, FEMNET has started a new project. It is supported as a small project by the BMZ and runs throughout 2015. It is a commitment to the creation of crèches in textile factories in Bangalore, which are required by law but not implemented. Seamstresses often do not know where to leave their toddlers and if there is care, she is so bad that the women do not want to entrust their children to the factory. Details Published: 02 April 2015 Read more …
Expectations of FEMNET/CCC on the Textile Alliance and the Federal Government Statement by the CorA Corporate Responsibility Network and the Clean Clothes Campaign on the Textile Alliance (Download as PDF file) For many years, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and the CorA Corporate Responsibility Network have been committed to upholding human rights and internationally agreed social standards and norms among transnational corporations, their subsidiaries and suppliers. Details Published: 27 February 2015 Read more …
Expectations of FEMNET/CCC on the Textile Alliance and the Federal Government Statement by the CorA Corporate Responsibility Network and the Clean Clothes Campaign on the Textile Alliance (Download as PDF file) For many years, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and the CorA Corporate Responsibility Network have been committed to upholding human rights and internationally agreed social standards and norms among transnational corporations, their subsidiaries and suppliers. Details Published: 27 February 2015 Read more …
Statement of the campaign for clean clothing on the planned textile alliance of the BMZ On 16 October 2014, Federal Development Minister Gerd Müller will establish an alliance for sustainable textiles. The factory fires at Tazreen in November 2012 and Ali Enterprises in Pakistan, as well as the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013, caused thousands of deaths and injuries. These accidents occurred despite numerous controls and voluntary commitments by companies. To date, the victims and injured persons as well as their relatives have not been compensated fairly and sufficiently, as there is no legal basis for this. So far, there is only a voluntary compensation fund for the victims of Rana Plaza, which is not even half full. Details Published: 14 October 2014 Read more …
Literature tip: The road to sustainable clothing - standards, seals and political framework conditions. This report, which was commissioned by the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90/Die Grünen by Katharina Schaus in the summer of 2013, focuses on standards, seals and political framework conditions of the globalised textile industry. The overview included in this report includes 52 textile labels that provide incentives for sustainable development and have a health or environmental and socially acceptable orientation. Based on the collected basic information on all labels, a selection was made for which an exemplary analysis (assessment) was prepared according to predetermined parameters such as transparency, positioning, classification and their underlying requirements (criteria), quality, resources, implementation, social compatibility, etc. In addition to a look at problem factors in the textile industry along the value chain, a look at the market situation of sustainable clothing is also the content of this report. At the end of the report, recommendations for action resulting from the findings and relevant topics for representatives of politics are summarized. Download the report (PDF file) Details Published: 07 August 2013
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