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Almost three years since the first fashion brands and retailers signed up to our Roadmap towards responsible viscose and modal fibre manufacturing, this report evaluates where the global textile industry now stands in the transition towards responsible viscose. We have engaged with 100 brands and retailers, and the most prominent viscose manufactures’ and initiatives, evaluating their responsible production plans, commitments and progress on transparency. Fourteen major brands and retailers have made a public commitment to clean up their viscose supply chains and viscose manufacturers producing over 50% of global market share have also committed to better manufacturing and have started investing in closed-loop production processes in line with the Changing Markets’ Roadmap. While the frontrunners of the industry have made great headway, the report highlights that legislation is needed to unlock a sector-wide transformation.

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Sabine Ferenschild erklärt in diesem Podcast, worauf Du bei der Kleiderwahl achten solltest und gibt Einblicke in die Komplexität der textilen Produktionskette.

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This report demonstrates how the business model of fashion brands and the structure of global garment supply chains create and sustain poverty wages for garment workers. We explore how persistently low wages continue to be the foundation of the industry despite policy commitments to pay a living wage. Elements of supply chains that impact wage levels are: the indirect employment relationship with supply chain workers; the global race to the bottom on labour costs which suppress national minimum wage increases; and the unequal power relationship between brands and suppliers which allow brands to dictate the terms of production, often at the expense of suppliers.

Between August 2020 and February 2021, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) approached 16 brands for a response to allegations of unpaid wages and benefits (wage theft). All brands included in the report have policy commitments to ensure workers in their supply chain are paid. Ten go further and explicitly refer to aspirations to pay a living wage, with five of these brands members of the key voluntary initiative on living wage payment, Action Collaboration Transformation (ACT). Yet the existence of voluntary initiatives on living wages has failed to result in the payment of living wages to garment workers or even an increase in the wage level.

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MODE. MACHT. MENSCHEN. ist ein Dokumentarfilmprojekt von Regisseur Patrick Kohl über die Textil- und Bekleidungsindustrie in Kambodscha.

Der Film unterteilt sich in acht Episoden und ist auf youtube verfügbar.

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Fast Fashion hat die Textilbranche von Grund auf verändert. Die Bekleidungsindustrie überschüttet den Planeten geradezu mit Textilien: 56 Millionen Tonnen Kleidung werden jährlich verkauft. Influencer und Neuromarketing sorgen für steigenden Absatz. Doch die Billigkleidung hat einen hohen Preis wie etwa prekäre Beschäftigungsverhältnisse und die katastrophale Umweltbilanz.

Die Doku beleuchtet verschiedene Aspekte der Fast Fashion Industrie.

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