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21 June 2021 Lack of transparency: Campaign for Clean Clothes calls for improvements in the Textile Alliance

Berlin/Bonn/Dortmund, 21.06.2021. The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) criticises the fact that member companies in the Textile Alliance are not obliged to disclose their supply chain. In a recent report, the CCC shows that very few member companies disclose their supply chains and adhere to the best practice standard. Transparency Pledge follow. Only with this transparency can human rights due diligence obligations be effectively and credibly implemented. The campaign for clean clothing also criticises the lack of binding requirements for human rights due diligence.

Human rights protection is only possible with supply chain transparency

The Clean Clothing Campaign calls on companies in the Textile Alliance to create transparency across their entire supply chain. ‘Only if the data about the Supply chains are disclosed, can affected workers abuses of working conditions and violations of labour rights in the production facilities; Germans Modenterprise and ask for redress from them. Enabling redress for human rights violations is also a key concern of the now adopted Supply Chain Act, the effective implementation of which would have to support the Textile Alliance.” says Aika Fischbeck of FEMNET, a member organization of the Clean Clothes Campaign.

Voluntary action is not enough – all companies have to comply with transparency standards

The textile alliance relies on companies voluntarily disclosing their supply chain. For this purpose, suppliers of the companies are collected in a so-called ‘alliance list’. ‘Only 23 the 85th Member companies participate in the AllianceList of. Our report also shows that supply chain transparency is still far too weak for the majority of allied companies. This shows: Voluntary nature clearly does not apply to supply chain transparency.”, concludes Sina Marx of FEMNET, the author of the report. The list is also a summary and does not allow conclusions to be drawn about individual companies. This "Alliance List" thus falls well short of the best practice standard of the Transparency Pledge back. This requires companies to provide detailed information on all production sites, e.g. name, address, number of employees, manufactured product and parent company. Sina Marx points to positive examples: ‘Other initiatives in the textile sector make it possible for the Textile Alliance to oblige its member companies to increase supply chain transparency by ensuring compliance with the Transparency Pledge make it a binding membership requirement.’

Mandatory requirements for human rights due diligence are necessary

The campaign for clean clothing also criticizes the lack of binding minimum requirements in the textile alliance, how alliance companies implement due diligence obligations and how they should report on them. Specific guidelines are needed on how companies must identify risks to people and the environment in their production processes, what they must do to counteract these risks and what information can be used to determine that the measures adequately mitigate the risks. ‘The examination of the reports must be carried out on the basis of strict minimum requirements in order to ensure that the Textile Alliance is at all of a reasonable standard of quality.the implementation of due diligence obligations by its members. In the autumn, we will examine the reports of the members of the Alliance accordingly and evaluate the claim of the Alliance and its members to human rights due diligence.“(a) to follow.” announced Isabell Ullrich, Coordinator of the Clean Clothes Campaign.

 

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