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Bringing human rights into fashion - Issues, challenges and underused potentials in the transnational garment industry

The garment industry is an important economic growth engine for the Asia-Pacific region. It is also an industry with a rather poor human rights track record. This study seeks to take stock of developments in the global garment industry. It does so by analysing structural market characteristics and pressing human rights issues as well as existing instruments and initiatives. Specific attention is paid to the role of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) and to development policies in the global North. Analytically, the investigation is guided by the framework of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP). Important input for the study was obtained at a joint workshop held by the German Institute for Human Rights and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) in Bangkok in January 2017 at which NHRI representatives from Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, and Thailand shared their expertise on human rights issues in the garment industry and discussed the challenges their NHRIs are facing.

Herausgeber*in/Autor*in: Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte; Autor*in: Jan-Christian Niebank

Medienart: Hintergrundinformation

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Zielgruppe: Student*innen, Dozent*innen

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 78 Seiten
Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Suchbegriffe: Arbeitsbedingungen, Bekleidungsindustrie, Due Diligence, Gesundheit, Gewerkschaften, Lieferkette, Löhne, Menschenrechte, Textilindustrie, Verbesserungsvorschläge, Zwangsarbeit