Herausgeber_in: Kampagne für saubere Kleidung

Kurzbeschreibung:

Im Rahmen des von Brot für die Welt und der Servicestelle Kommunen in der Einen Welt mitfinanzierten Projektes „Solidarität konkret – Kolleginnen und Kollegen für sozial und ökologisch hergestellte Arbeits- und Dienstkleidung“ ist jetzt eine Ausstellung erschienen.

Die Ausstellung besteht aus 10 Roll Ups. Jedes Roll Up ist 80 cm breit. Sie zeigt aus der Perspektive von Kolleginnen und Kollegen in Personalräten und kirchlichen Mitarbeitervertretungen die Bedeutung von verantwortlicher Beschaffung von Dienstbekleidung.

Ferner werden Möglichkeiten zur praktischen Umsetzung vorgestellt. Lokale Initiativen können die Ausstellung ausleihen und bei Veranstaltungen zeigen.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 10 Roll-Ups

Sprache: Deutsch

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Christiane Schnura

Kampagne für Saubere Kleidung | Koordination

c/o VEM, Rudolfstr. 135, 42285 Wuppertal

Tel.: 0202 – 89 004 316

Autor_in: Sabine Dreßler, Ansgar Gilster, Veronique Mußmann

Herausgeber_in: Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland

Kurzbeschreibung:

Mit einem Materialheft nimmt die Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) die Produktionsbedingungen in der Textilindustrie in den Blick. Ob in Bangladesch, Indien, Indonesien oder Osteuropa: die Einschränkung oder Verletzung von Menschenrechten, von Arbeits- und Sozialgesetzen ist an der Tagesordnung.

Das Materialheft bietet Hintergrundinformationen zu Produktionsstätten von Textilien sowie Interviews mit Näherinnen und Nähern, Informationen zum bestehenden internationalen Rechtsrahmen und dazu, wie und wo Käufer und VerbraucherInnen sich engagieren können. Es informiert über Bündnisse zur Verbesserung der Arbeitssituation von Näherinnen und Nähern, zur Unternehmensverantwortung und welche Projekte Unterstützung geben, damit Menschen ihre Rechte kennen und einfordern können. Darüber hinaus zeigt das Heft, wie das Thema Modeproduktion inzwischen kritisch wahrgenommen wird: in Ausstellungen, Dokumentationen, Film und Literatur 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 86

Sprache: Englisch

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Autor_in: Dr. Bettina Musiolek

Herausgeber_in: Clean Clothes Campaign

Kurzbeschreibung:

The H&M group is one of the world’s largest retailers with 4,801 shops worldwide. In November 2013, H&M announced that all “H&M’s strategic suppliers should have pay structures in place to pay a fair living wage by 2018. By then, this will reach around 850 000 textile workers.” At the time, those workers made 60% of H&M’s products, sourced from ‘strategic and preferred suppliers’ which H&M grades as gold or platinum. With H&M’s deadline nearing, Clean Clothes Campaign set out to check what workers were making in some of those supplier factories, and how close that was to a living wage. In our understanding, a living wage should be earned in a standard working week and allow the garment worker and her/his family to cover basic needs: food to meet nutritional needs, housing, healthcare, clothing, transportation and education, plus 10% discretionary income for savings, or protection in case of the unexpected. Our researchers spoke with 62 workers in Bulgaria, Turkey, India and Cambodia. This document highlights their key findings as well as some additional facts that shed light on H&M’s supply chain and the brand’s progress in implementing its commitments. 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 17 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Fair Wear Foundation

Kurzbeschreibung:

A publication exploring solutions for tackling gender-based violence in the garment industry.

The publication revisits the issues that were discussed at the 2017 Gender Forum in Vietnam. It looks at what has changed since the 2017 Gender Forum, charting the progress achieved and the obstacles encountered by country teams over the course of the year —in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam —as they work toward achieving the goals and pledges made during the 2017 Gender Forum.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 34 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Fair Wear Foundation

Kurzbeschreibung:

This paper examines the application of human rights due diligence in the area of wages. In order to wage compliance to be achieved and for wages to improve, both a greater transparency in cost price negotiations between apparel buyers and their suppliers, and a precise determination of the labour component must take place.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 19 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Autor_in: Isabel Ebert, Saskia Wilks, Jennifer Teufel

Herausgeber_in: Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

Kurzbeschreibung:

The 24th of April 2018 marked the five-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza textile factory disaster in Bangladesh. Numerous multinational textile companies sourced goods from the production in this building, among them a range of companies headquartered in the EU. Five years after the Rana Plaza disaster, to what extent have EU textile companies integrated respect for human rights throughout their operations? Are EU companies carrying out robust human rights due diligence throughout their supply chains to prevent the next ‘Rana Plaza’?

This briefing explores these questions by laying out the main challenges and opportunities in the EU textile sector. Based on data collected by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre over the last seven years on over 170 allegations of negative human rights impacts, this briefing sheds light on the key human rights issues, the scale and geographical dispersion of alleged abuses, and the quality of the responses from EU textile companies to these allegations. It also shares lessons from key legal cases involving EU textile firms where alleged victims sought access to remedy. 

The briefing concludes with recommendations for EU policy-makers and decision-makers, as well as to companies, to overcome the existing challenges to respect and protect human rights in the EU textile industry and its supply chains. A key problem at present is the lack of coordination among member states on how to tackle these issues. By surveying the scale of the abuses, the lack of access to remedy for victims, and identifying the gaps, challenges and opportunities, the briefing emphasizes the need for an EU-wide homogenous set of legislation on human rights responsibilities for EU textile companies. 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 20 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Asia Floor Wage Alliance, The Center for Alliance of Labor & Human Rights, Global Labor Justice, Sedane Labour Resource Centre, SLD

Schlagwörter: Befragung, Bangladesch, Diskriminierung, Gender, Gewalt, Frauenrechte, Frauen in der Bekleidungsindustrie, Kambodscha, Indonesien, Unternehmen und Menschenrechte, Unternehmensverantwortung, extraterritorialer Menschenrechtsschutz

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This report—including interviews with more than 250 workers employed in 60 factories that supply to Walmart— documents the experiences of women garment workers at the base of Walmart garment supply chains in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Concentrated in short term, low-skill, and low-wage positions, they are at daily risk of gender-based violence and harassment at work. This report provides an empirical account of the spectrum of gender-based violence and risk factors for violence women workers face in Walmart garment supply chains. Chapter 4 of this report presents new research on gender-based violence in Walmart garment supplier factories in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Indonesia collected through interviews and focus group discussions with 25 workers and trade union leaders organizing in Walmart supply chains between February and May 2018. Systematically documenting risk factors for violence, this report presents new, in-depth profiles of 4 Walmart supplier factories in Bangladesh and Cambodia completed between February and May 2018. It also draws upon Asia Floor Wage Alliance (2016) documentation of rights violations at work in Walmart garment global supply chains, compiled over four years of research (2012-2016) on Walmart supply chains in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Indonesia.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 43 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Asia Floor Wage Alliance, The Center for Alliance of Labor & Human Rights, Global Labor Justice, Sedane Labour Resource Centre, SLD

Schlagwörter: Befragung, Bangladesch, Diskriminierung, Gender, Gewalt, Frauenrechte, Frauen in der Bekleidungsindustrie, Sri Lanka, Kambodscha, Indien, Indonesien, Unternehmen und Menschenrechte, Unternehmensverantwortung, extraterritorialer Menschenrechtsschutz

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This report—including interviews with more than 215 workers employed in 21 factories that supply to Gap—documents the experiences of women garment workers at the base of Gap garment

supply chains in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. Concentrated in short term, low skill, and low-wage positions, they are at daily risk of gender based violence and harassment at work. Systematically documenting risk factors for violence, this report presents new, in-depth profiles of 9 Gap supplier factories in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India completed between February and May 2018. It also draws upon Asia Floor Wage Alliance (2016) documentation of rights violations at work in Gap garment global supply chains in India and Indonesia, based upon field work conducted between August and October 2015.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 50 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Asia Floor Wage Alliance, The Center for Alliance of Labor & Human Rights, Global Labor Justice, Sedane Labour Resource Centre, SLD

Schlagwörter: Befragung, Bangladesch, Diskriminierung, Gender, Gewalt, Frauenrechte, Frauen in der Bekleidungsindustrie, Kambodscha, Indien, Unternehmen und Menschenrechte, Unternehmensverantwortung, extraterritorialer Menschenrechtsschutz

Kurzbeschreibung:

This report—including interviews with more than 331 workers employed in 32 factories that supply to H&M—documents the experiences of women garment workers at the base of H&M garment supply chains. Concentrated in short term, low-skill, and low-wage positions, they are at daily risk of gender-based violence and harassment at work. Systematically documenting risk factors for violence, this report presents new, in-depth profiles of gendered hiring practices in 6 H&M supplier factories in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India completed between February and May 2018. It also draws upon Asia Floor Wage Alliance (2016) documentation of rights violations at work in H&M garment global supply chains in Cambodia and India.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 53 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: International Labour Office

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Einkaufspraktiken, globale Produktionsströme, globale Warenproduktion, Globale Wertschöpfungskette, ILO, Unternehmen und Menschenrechte, Unternehmensverantwortung, CSR

Kurzbeschreibung:

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and its constituents, at the 10thSession of the International Labour Conference (ILC), discussed the need to further assess working conditions deficits as well as governance issues that may hinder the achievement of decent work in global supply chains. Specifically, the Conference asked the ILO to “take a proactive role in generating and making accessible reliable data on decent work in global supply chains” and to “carry out research to better understand how supply chains work in practice and what their impact is on decent work and fundamental rights”. The Inclusive Labour Markets, Labour Relations and Working Conditions branch took action to contribute to fill this gap by carrying out a Global Survey on purchasing practices and working conditions in collaboration with the joint Ethical Trading Initiatives.

This Global Survey is strong in terms of number of workers covered. Since the average number of workers in the surveyed companies was 1,026, the sample covers nearly 1.5 million workers. Finally, this study is able to analyse purchasing practices and working conditions by firm size. We have identified 5 major business practices between the buyers and the suppliers that may influence wages and working conditions: contracts clauses, technical specifications, order placement (and lead times), prices and market power, and requests for social standards. While many of these areas are heavily influenced by the buyers’ policies, we also find that the profile of the suppliers may also play an important role when explaining the working environment and working conditions.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Umfang: 24 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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