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Tell Next to respect garment workers’ rights
Joint Statement: Western brands must condemn the military coup and support workers in Myanmar
Women working in UK garment factories are four times as likely to die from Covid-19 than women in other occupations
Tansy Hoskins: One Challenger’s experience of the Six Items
Multi-Millionaire garment brand owners once again fail their workers
Primark update
Action Update: Volume 31
Boohoo: Pay back your workers and go transparent
PRIMARK: Have you paid your workers?
Boohoo update
Report: Out of the Shadows
Trutex school uniform campaign: update
Inside Missguided: a documentary that misses the mark
Report: Un(der)paid in the pandemic: An estimate of what the garment industry owes its workers
Leicester Garment Industry
Report: Boohoo & COVID-19: The people behind the profit
Action Update: Volume 30
Remembering the Rana Plaza workers by continuing the fight for workers’ rights during the pandemic
COVID-19 Short Term Demands in defense of Garment Workers in Global Supply Chains
Brands must honour contracts during pandemic
Report: Who will bail out the workers who make our clothes?
Brands must urgently take steps to minimise impact of the coronavirus on garment workers’ health and livelihoods
WIN! A signed copy of Foot Work plus print
UK garment brand River Island signs on to the Transparency Pledge
Action Update: Volume 29
Human Rights Day 2019: In solidarity with garment workers
BOOWHO? It’s time to #GoTransparent
Press release: Eliminating poverty and fighting climate change are not mutually exclusive
Press release: Eliminating poverty and fighting climate change are not mutually exclusive
Press release: Unions and NGOs criticise government for ignoring human rights in post-Brexit Cambodian trade deal
New report shows factory auditing worsens garment workers’ rights
Take action: Uniqlo owe workers 5.5 million USD
New report shows 650,000 Syrian refugees in Turkish factories
Tell us where our school uniforms come from
Action Update: Number 28
Concerns raised over health impacts of chemical use in denim bleaching
Primark responds on Bangladesh repression
Campaigners respond angrily to short-sighted Government response on reducing plastic waste in fashion
Tell Boohoo and Amazon to pay a living wage
Major clothing brands failing to meet living wage commitments
Report: Tailored Wages UK 2019
Not a single worker is making a living wage yet H&M claims to have done an amazing job
Tell Primark to stop the fear and support worker safety and rights
Bangladesh: Factory safety under threat
Sri Lanka: Illegal dismissals prompt women worker strike
Bangladesh: Violence and repression of worker protests
Action Update: Winter 2018
Bangladesh Workers go on hunger strike
Workers reveal poverty wages and labour law violations in H&M’s supply chain
Report: H&M: fair living wages were promised, poverty wages are the reality
Action Update: Summer 2018
Report: Adidas and Nike pay record-breaking amounts to footballers, but deny decent wages to women stitching their shirts
IKEA refuses to join Bangladesh Accord
IKEA refuses to join Bangladesh Accord
2018 Accord
Action Update: Winter 2017
New report shares good practice for advancing workers’ rights in the shoe industry
Report: How To Do Better: an exploration of better practices within the footwear industry
Report: The Real Cost of Our Shoes
Despite massive profits, big fashion brands refuse to pay workers after factory closures
Report: Watch Your Step
Report: Something is a Foot
Tell us who made our shoes! Thousands call on leading UK brands to come clean, and to stop endangering workers
Will H&M deliver on its promise to pay a living wage in 2018?
Giving Tuesday
Where Should I Shop?
Wages – What Should Fashion Brands Do?
Wages – How the Workers See It
Working Hours
The Right to a Living Wage
Watch: Unpredictable and insecure: shoe workers in Agra, India
Labour Behind the Label welcomes agreement between ASOS and IndustriALL
Watch: the toxic truth about leather
Day of action calls for urgent change for workers in the shoe industry
Zara, Next and Mango slammed for leaving workers without wages at Turkish factory
Watch: Killer Heels at London Fashion Week
Activists demand an end to Killer Heels at London Fashion Week
Report: Let’s Clean Up Fashion
Giving Labour Rights the Boot: Working Conditions in the Turkish Shoe Industry
Take action: support 208 Cambodian workers fighting for justice
M&S, Bonmarché and Nygård should compensate Cambodian workers after factory closure
Action Update: Summer 2017
Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety is renewed
Watch: Think Twice
It’s time for UK brands to Step Up and tell us where our shoes were made
Trampling workers’ rights underfoot: a snapshot of the human rights due diligence performance of 23 companies in the global footwear industry
Event: Who stitches your shoes? Join us for a panel discussion in Manchester on 12 May
An open letter to the European Commission: transparency in the garment supply chain
Four years after Rana Plaza disaster little has changed for workers in Bangladesh
Follow the Thread: The Need for Supply Chain Transparency in the Garment and Footwear Industry
UK fashion brands are coming clean to address human rights abuses, but more companies must follow suit
Why we should learn to love our clothes
Traditional over fast fashion flurry
Report: No Excuses for Homework
Press Release: Workers’ rights protests target Bangladesh Embassies in London, Europe and US
Press release: Myanmar garment industry far from fair
Fashion brands need to do more to tackle abuse of Syrian refugees in Turkish garment factories
Invisible Workers: Syrian refugees in Turkish garment factories
Victory: Company drops legal case against Romanian journalist reporting on dire working conditions
Action Update: Winter 2016
The right to dream
Press release: Citizen journalists reveal harsh lives for factory workers making our clothes
Press release: Chinese activist faces life in jail for supporting shoe workers
Free Meng Han
Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: Workers Rights’ Violations in the Indian Leather and Footwear Industry
Testing for Hexavalent Chromium in Shoes
Action Update: Summer 2016
Compensation agreed for victims of Pakistan factory fire
Report: Tricky Footwork
Report: Tricky Footwork – the struggle of labour rights in the Chinese shoe industry
Report: Labour on a Shoe String
The realities of working in Europe’s shoe manufacturing peripheries
Chinese Labour Rights activists still in prison
Shop demo 18th April 2016: H&M
Report: Rana Plaza Three Years On: Compensation, Justice and Workers’ Safety
Volunteer at Bestival, Love Saves the Day, Noisily Festival, Boomtown Fair, All Points East, Tokyo World and more!
Join the global day of action to remember Rana Plaza, 24th April 2015
Rana Plaza survivor and others arrested at Children’s Place headquarters
No justice in sight: 18 months from Rana Plaza
Press Release: Labour groups demand H&M deliver ‘safety conscious’ fashion
Press Release: EU citizens demand transparent and fair production of shoes and leather
Report: Change Your Shoes People’s Meeting
Education: ‘Stitching Our Shoes’ homeworkers fact sheet
Press Release: New research uncovers hidden women who stitch our shoes
Blog: The Invisible Women Who Stitch Our Shoes
Report: Stitching Our Shoes
Blog: Buying ethically?
Report: Do We Buy It? A supply chain investigation into living wage commitments from M&S and H&M
New report shows M&S living wage commitment to be misleading
Report: A Tough Story of Leather
A Tough Story of Leather
Action Update: Winter 2015
Press Release: Shopaholics, ditch your shoe guilt
Blog: A Moldovan garment worker earns just £95 a month
We Won! Rana Plaza compensation announced
Education: Shoes fact sheet
Education: Sustainable Fashion – a handbook for educators
Press Release: Rana Plaza anniversary day of action calls for immediate compensation
Press Release: Rana Plaza compensation fund remains in crisis
Press Release: Victims of Rana Plaza factory collapse to finally receive full compensation for loss of income and medical care
Press Release: Global coalition launches Change Your Shoes, a campaign to transform the shoe industry
Press Release: Mulberry slammed for worker exploitation in Turkish factory. 15.09.15
Blog: Why I won’t be boycotting Primark
Blog: 19 year old Frida Ottesen visits Cambodia to report on sweatshop conditions
Blog: Fair pay for the people who make our clothes
Education: Step into her trainers
Education: Sweatshop Relay
Education: Fair’s Fair Teaching Pack
Action Update: Winter 2013
Action Update: Summer 2014
Blog: A ‘song of the wage’ for Rana Plaza
Blog: Two years on garment workers still toil in virtual slavery
Blog: How long must Rana Plaza victims wait for justice?
Blog: Deadly Fast Fashion
Action Update: Winter 2014
Action Update: Summer 2015
Report: Killer Jeans
Report: Shop ‘Til They Drop
Report: Still Waiting
Report: Tailored Wages
H&Ms sustainability promises will not deliver a living wage
LBL response to Primark statement on compensation
LBL calls for investigation after factory fire Philippines
Killer Jeans report
Survivors demand brands pay up
LBL calls for investigation after factory fire Philippines
Press release: Matalan slammed for ‘trivial’ compensation payments to Rana Plaza victims
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