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More and more municipalities are making their way to get fairer. However, the concrete implementation is not always so simple. FEMNET has advised smaller municipalities on fair purchasing practices. Now let's take the “lessons learnt“ in one manual together: Our examples show that there are ways to achieve something - even if the staffing level is thin, the political backing is (still) lacking or there are legal uncertainties.
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The district of Fürth dares to: Since 2016, its member municipalities have been working together to make public purchases more socially equitable step by step. They reinforce each other, they coordinate strategies and they share procurement data. In the district of Fürth, many positive aspects intertwine: Active and dedicated Fairtrade Town steering groups that don't let up. The insight that fair procurement can be easier than thought. And the necessary political backing to make fair procurement also possible ‘from above’.
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Important progress has been made by the multi-stakeholder initiative Tamil Nadu (MSI-TN) over the last 1.5 years – this was clearly visible at the conference on 6 February 2020, which was attended by around 140 people.
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Extremely low wages, fixed-term contracts and the suppression of trade unions: Two new studies by FEMNET criticize precarious working conditions in the production of workwear in India and Tunisia. Such goods are also purchased by public institutions in Germany.
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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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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 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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Mugilan P. has been coordinating the training programme at MSI-TN, the Indian partner organisation of the Tamil Nadu alliance initiative, since October 2018. In an interview with the Alliance Secretariat of the Textile Alliance, he takes stock of the first year of the initiative.
This interview appeared in Annual Report 2019 of the Alliance for Sustainable Textiles.
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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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Under what conditions is workwear made? What are the new public procurement directives? And how do companies view fair workwear? With questions like these, we put public procurement back on the button during our multiplier training in October 2019.
