Herausgeber_in: Textile Exchange

Schlagwörter: Firmenbefragung, Bio-Baumwolle, Life Cycle, LifeCycle Analysis, Ökobilanz

Kurzbeschreibung:
The goal of this study was to build an up-to date and well-documented Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) for organic cotton fiber (ginned and baled), representative of worldwide global production. In addition, the study provides a full Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) of organic cotton fiber (comprising cultivation and ginning operations) and identifies environmental hotspots. To the effect of achieving these goals the relevant ISO standards 14040 and 14044 were followed. The process was verified by an accompanying independent critical review process.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 83 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Textile Exchange

Schlagwörter: Firmenbefragung, Strategien, Designstrategien, Unternehmensverantwortung, Unternehmenspraxis, CSRMaßnahmen, CSR-Maßnahmen, Corporate Social Responsibility, Positivbeispiele ÖkoMode 

Kurzbeschreibung:
As we were researching the Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report, we uncovered a rich and diverse set of stories from people who are really making a difference in textile sustainability. We decided to bring these together into this Insider Series, and the result is an uplifting read. The stories showcased here are an eclectic mix of industry leaders speaking from “inside” their organization. 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 42 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), Action Labor Rights (ALR), Labour Rights Defenders and Promoters (LRDP)

Autor_in: Martje Theuws, Pauline Overeem

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen, Arbeitszeiten, Befragung, Einkaufspraktiken, Firmenbefragung, Gewerkschaft, Kinderarbeit, Lohn, Menschenrechtsverletzungen, Myanmar/Burma, Multi Stakeholder Initiativen, Textilindustrie, Textilproduktion

Kurzbeschreibung:
The garment industry is one of the most labour-intensive manufacturing industries in the world. Clothing companies are constantly on the look-out for production locations that can make clothes quickly and at low costs. Over the past few years, Myanmar has rapidly become a popular sourcing destination for the garment industry – due ta huge pool of cheap labour and favourable import and export tariffs. However, working conditions in this industry are far from acceptable. Labour rights violations are rife. Workers whare bold enough may file complaints or resort topen protests, news of which sometimes finds its way intinternational media. More often, workers toil on in silence. As well as describing the most pressing problems, the authors of this report offer suggestions for constructive ways forward thead off a crisis before it escalates.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 139 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

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Herausgeber_in: Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) , Human Rights Watch, International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), International Labour Rights Forum ( ILRF), Maquila Solidarity Network, Worker Rights Consortium, IndustriALL, ITUC CSI IGB, UNI

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Firmenbefragung, Lieferkette, Textilindustrie, Transparenz

Kurzbeschreibung:
The garment and footwear industry stretches around the world. Clothes and shoes sold in stores in the US, Canada, Europe, and other parts of the world typically travel across the globe. They are cut and stitched in factories in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, or other regions. Factory workers in Bangladesh or Romania could have made clothes only weeks agthat consumers elsewhere are eagerly picking up. When global supply chains are opaque, consumers often lack meaningful information about where their apparel was made. A T-shirt label might say “Made in China,” but in which of the country’s thousands of factories was this garment made? And under what conditions for workers? There is a growing trend of global apparel companies adopting supply chain transparency—starting with publishing the names, addresses, and other important information about factories manufacturing their branded products. Such transparency is a powerful tool for promoting corporate accountability for garment workers’ rights in global supply chains. Transparency can ensure identification of global apparel companies whose branded products are made in factories where bosses abuse workers’ rights. Garment workers, unions, and nongovernmental organizations can call on these apparel companies ttake steps tensure that abuses stop and workers get remedies. This report takes stock of supply chain transparency in the garment industry four years after the industry disasters in Bangladesh and Pakistan that shook the global garment industry. Tbuild momentum toward supply chain transparency and develop industry minimum standards, a coalition of labor and human rights groups asked 72 companies tagree timplement a simple Transparency Pledge. It alsasked that companies declining tcommit tthe Pledge provide reasons for choosing not tdso. Where companies engaged with the coalition, the coalition alssought additional information about their existing transparency practices. This report explains the logic and the urgency behind the Pledge and describes the responses we received from the companies contacted.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 20 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Bezug: kostenfrei bei Clean Clothes Campaign.