Business of Fashion – ‘Ethical’ Cotton Is Being Picked by Child Labourers in India, Watchdog Finds
A new report has linked businesses supplying companies including Zara-owner Inditex, H&M Group, Gap Inc. and Amazon to incidents of forced labour and debt bondage on Indian cotton farms.
BHRRC: In Mauritius, Investigation Spurs Buyer Compensation for Migrant Garment Workers
From the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre “After a two year investigation into conditions for workers at five factories in Mauritius, Transparentem published its findings and results of its engagement with apparel brands, prompting remediation and compensation for migrant workers who suffered a litany of labour rights abuses. Almost 100 garment workers from Bangladesh […]
Supply Chain Transparency: The Missing Link in Climate Finance
Climate finance has become a cornerstone of global efforts to combat climate change, underpinning initiatives for mitigation, adaptation, and addressing loss and damage. However, its success hinges on two critical but often overlooked elements: accountability and supply chains. Insufficient accountability leads to the loss of valuable funds through fraud, corruption, and rent-seeking and causes harm […]
BHRRC: “Limited Progress Toward Remediation and Lack of Transparency by Some Global Apparel Brands | Transparentem Rejoinder to Company Responses to BHRRC”
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, “Since the publication of Transparentem’s December 2023 report describing interviewed workers’ experience of poor labor conditions, including evidence of forced labor indicators, at four apparel manufacturers in Mauritius, we remain very troubled by insufficient remediation of past harms identified by workers — including the lack of repayment of recruitment […]
