News & Press Releases - Fair procurement for the public sector © CIR - Christian Initiative Romero 23 January 2020 The ‘golden exploiter’ goes to the Federal Government! 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. With its enormous purchasing power, the Federal Administration has an important lever for the implementation of human rights in supply chains. Since the Bundeswehr does not use this potential in a particularly exemplary way, it took the prize on behalf of the entire administration. proud to the contrary. As early as 2018, the labour rights violations in the production of Bundeswehr clothing became public. But instead of acting, the federal administration missed its own goal of sustainably procuring at least half of its clothing by 2020! As a member of the Alliance Initiative Supply Chain Act, the Clean Clothes Campaign and the CorA network, FEMNET calls for binding regulations for business and administration and has co-signed an open letter to this effect. Open letter to the Federal Chancellery on the objective of the Federal Government, 50 percent of the Federal Government's textile needs to be procured sustainably. (PDF file)
