Unraveling Organic and Ethical Cotton: What They Really Mean and a Path to Improvement
In the fashion and textile industry, certified organic and ethical cotton are often promoted as sustainable and socially responsible alternatives to conventional cotton. These certifications appeal to conscious consumers, but do they always deliver on their promises, or can they obscure the realities of cotton production? Transparentem’s recent investigation into farming practices in India—one of […]
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 […]
Transparentem Exposes Environmental and Human Rights Abuses of Fashion Industry
Operating a trillion-dollar market worldwide, the fashion industry has been linked to significant environmental and human rights abuses – generating… unprecedented pollution, employing people and children under conditions akin to slavery, and exacerbating a culture of mindless and highly damaging consumerism.
H&M’s Different Kind of Clickbait
The H&M group sells an estimated three billion articles of clothing per year. Its revenue makes it among the top…
Toxic Tanneries Forced to Move Pollute New Bangladesh Site
Bangladesh tanneries prepping leather for shoes, belts, wallets and purses are dumping toxic chemicals into a river at a new… industrial complex more than a year after the government shut them down for poisoning a different river and using child labor.
Bangladesh: Unsafe work conditions and child labour reported in tanneries supplying leather to western brands, companies respond
A report by Transparentem, a nonprofit group that investigates supply chains, allege that hazardous, heavily polluting tanneries employing child labour… supplied leather to companies that make shoes and handbags for a host of Western brands. The report didn’t say the leather ends up in American and European companies’ products, only that the manufacturers of some […]
Report Examines Grim Bangladesh Leather Trade, Links to West
Hazardous, heavily polluting tanneries, with workers as young as 14, supplied leather to companies that make shoes and handbags for… a host of Western brands, a nonprofit group that investigates supply chains says. The report by New York-based Transparentem, released to The Associated Press on Friday, didn’t say leather from the tanneries ends up in […]
Western Brands Respond to Report on Bangladesh Tanneries
Leather made with child labor and under dangerous, polluted conditions in Bangladesh went to factories that produced goods for major… U.S. and European shoe and handbag brands and companies, according to a report released Friday by New York-based nonprofit Transparentem. Those named in the report generally said they were concerned about the conditions at the […]
