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Migrant workers are an increasingly important part of the global garment industry workforce. These workers are particularly vulnerable to exploitation: they often do the same job as local workers but for lower wages and in more precarious conditions, and face specific barriers to articulating and demanding their rights as workers. Abuse of migrant workers in textile and garment supply chains is a growing problem. This fact sheet addresses these abuses and offers companies that buy garments for retail a set of recommendations to address exploitation of migrant workers in their supply chain. This publication is part of a series of fact sheets that SOMO is developing for the WellMade programme.

Redaktion: Burton, Angela

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Pitiful wages, child labour and sexual abuse is reported to be the reality for some Syrian refugees
working without permits in Turkey, posing a major challenge for the garment brands that source from the country to supply Europe’s high streets. This report summarizes the responses of 28 of Europe’s largest clothes brands who were asked to explain how they are protecting Syrian refugees in their supply chain. A few are taking decisive action, but many are doing too little.
The document contains recommendations for brands and demands towards different actors.

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Der Reportage-Beitrag zeigt die Arbeitsbedingungen in der Lederverarbeitung in Italien auf: riskante und gesundheitsgefährdende Arbeitsbedingungen, prekäre Beschäftigungsverhältnisse und niedrige Löhne, unter denen insbesondere Arbeiter_innen mit Migrationsgeschichte leiden. Sie gibt Hintergrundinformationen aus Recherchen italienischer Nicht-Regierungs-Organisationen und schaut europäischen Campaigner_innen für faire Schuhproduktion über die Schulter.

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Das Länderprofil enthält grundlegende Angaben zur Bekleidungsindustrie und Lohnsituation in Bosnien und Herzegowina. Im Bezug auf die Löhne werden Durchschnittslöhne, Mindestlöhne sowie Existenzlöhne thematisiert. Das Länderprofil zeigt lohnbezogene Arbeits- und Menschenrechtsverletzungen auf und formuliert Forderungen an Marken und Modehändler. Es fasst Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung vor Ort und Aussagen aus Interviews mit Arbeiter_innen zusammen und führt Fallbeispiele an.

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Two and a half years after the Rana Plaza building collapse and the launch of the first industrial reform programs to address the pervasive fire and structural hazards in Bangladeshi garment factories, workers report they will not be safe without a voice at work. Fire, electrical, and structural safety in garment factories is essential and will save lives. But these renovations and repairs must be the foundation for additional reforms that address the intimidation and violence that keep workers silent, afraid to voice concerns and put forward solutions to ensure their own safety. A next phase of reforms must instill the lessons that respect for workers is as important to safety as are fire exits, that workers’ perspectives on safety are as important as the findings of building engineers. Without it workers’ lives and health will continue to be in jeopardy.
Between October 2014 and January 2015, the International Labor Rights Forum interviewed more than 70 workers with the assistance of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity. We set out to talk with them about fire, electrical and structural safety issues. But almost all workers wanted to talk to us about more than the necessary technical repairs and renovations in their factories. This report is an attempt to do justice to their words and to tell the story of safety from the point of view of the workers we interviewed.

Redaktion: Foxvog, Liana / Gearhart, Judy

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