24 April 2017 Rana Plaza Remembrance Day: FEMNET calls for more transparency from the textile industry Bonn. With a street action in the middle of Bonn's city center, the women's rights organization FEMNET has drawn attention to today's memorial day for Rana Plaza. Four years ago today, he died at Factory collapse in Bangladesh More than 1,100 textile workers and 2,000 were injured. In order to address the still widespread lack of transparency in industry and the consequences of fast fashion consumption, the FEMNET activists reconstructed a textile supply chain with three stations ‘in small’ on Bottlerplatz last Saturday, 22 April: In the first room was spun, in the next sewn and in the third, screeching customers rushed to clothes stalls. Countless passers-by stayed with this Pantomime street theatre information about the background of the textile supply chain. "While the Rana Plaza disaster has brought the Western world's awareness of the situation of garment workers, many companies are still unwilling to ensure a transparent and secure supply chain," says Vanessa Püllen of FEMNET. Turns against it the International Transparency Initiative of the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), in which FEMNET is also involved. The recently published report:Follow the Thread“ (PDF file) shows the results of a broad international coalition, including the CCC, which called on 72 companies worldwide to make a transparency pledge. As The only German companies to date are Adidas and Esprit. We are committed to implementing the Transparency Pledge by the end of 2017. The German companies Lidl, Aldi and Tchibo have taken the first steps and now want to at least publish the names and addresses of their supplier factories worldwide. "Some German companies are moving in the right direction, but they need to ensure that they provide more detailed information about their suppliers and also publish information about their subcontractors," says Gisela Burckhardt of FEMNET. However, German companies KiK and Hugo Boss refuse transparency. Photos of the street action: www.facebook.com/femnetev and www.instagram.com/femnetev/Inquiries: Pamo Roth, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 0228/90917309
