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Report: The Real Cost of Our Shoes
This report is an investigation into the supply chains of three major shoe brands: Tod’s, Prada...
Report: Watch Your Step
A Study on the Social and Environmental Impacts of Tanneries in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu,...
Report: Something is a Foot
How human rights standards and environmental regulations in the footwear industry are being...
Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday Tuesday 28th November is Giving Tuesday! What does that mean? It’s the day we do...
Where Should I Shop?
Now, we know that what you want is for us to give you is a list of which shops to buy from and...
Wages – What Should Fashion Brands Do?
Most companies seem to think that ensuring payment of a minimum wage is sufficient to have...
Wages – How the Workers See It
This interview with a young Pakistani worker is indicative of the state of play across the garment...
Working Hours
Dhaka, Bangladesh – March 2010. Unacceptable working conditions are often accompanied by long and...
The Right to a Living Wage
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself...
Watch: Unpredictable and insecure: shoe workers in Agra, India
Unpredictable and insecure: shoe workers in Agra, India For contract workers who...
Watch: the toxic truth about leather
If your shoes are made of leather, there's something you should know Watch the video...
Watch: Killer Heels at London Fashion Week
19 September 2017 We've been up at London Fashion Week asking shoe brands to put an end to Killer...
Report: Let’s Clean Up Fashion
Report: Let's clean up fashion The state of pay behind the UK high street. “My concern is not that...
Take action: support 208 Cambodian workers fighting for justice
The sudden closure of a garment factory has left 208 workers in Cambodia without jobs, salaries,...
Action Update: Summer 2017
Find our what Labour Behind the Label have been up to in our bi-annual Action Update. Our Step Up...
Watch: Think Twice
Stop motion film shows the truth about your shoes Silas was inspired to make this brilliant...
Why we should learn to love our clothes
Why we should learn to love our clothes, and how the Six Items Challenge has helped me do exactly...
Traditional over fast fashion flurry
Guest blog by Leandra Gebrakedan When I worked as a manager in a charity shop I...
Report: No Excuses for Homework
Report: No Excuses for Homework Working conditions in the Indonesian leather and footwear sector....
Fashion brands need to do more to tackle abuse of Syrian refugees in Turkish garment factories
For immediate release Labour Behind the Label 18 January, 2017 Fashion brands need to do more to...
Action Update: Winter 2016
Find our what Labour Behind the Label have been up to in our bi-annual Action Update. Since our...
The right to dream
The right to dream: homeworkers in the UK and India Guest blog by Rachel McCarthy ...
Free Meng Han
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Compensation agreed for victims of Pakistan factory fire
After four years of campaigning and months of negotiations, an agreement has been reached to pay...
Report: Tricky Footwork – the struggle of labour rights in the Chinese shoe industry
New report uncovers labour rights violations within the Chinese shoe industry A new research...
Shop demo 18th April 2016: H&M
Shop demo 18th April: H&M H&M was one the first brands to sign the Accord: a legally...
Report: Rana Plaza Three Years On: Compensation, Justice and Workers’ Safety
Report: Rana Plaza Three Years On Compensation, Justice and Workers’ Safety On the eve of the...
Volunteer at Bestival, Love Saves the Day, Noisily Festival, Boomtown Fair, All Points East, Tokyo World and more!
Volunteer at Bestival, Love Saves the Day, Noisily Festival, Boomtown Fair, All Points East, Tokyo...
Blog: The Invisible Women Who Stitch Our Shoes
The phrase ‘sweatshop labour’ conjurs up images of factory settings in far away lands with row...
Blog: Buying ethically?
Behind the glamour of London Fashion Week and the aspirational images in glossy magazines is the reality of the global fashion industry.
Blog: A Moldovan garment worker earns just £95 a month
Tisu Ghosh is a Regional Coordinator for Labour Behind the Label and has been volunteering since...
Blog: Why I won’t be boycotting Primark
The recent events in Bangladesh have filled the media with horrific pictures of human tragedy:...
Blog: 19 year old Frida Ottesen visits Cambodia to report on sweatshop conditions
Just two years ago, when I was 17 years old, I was busy with my everyday life, and less concerned...
Blog: Fair pay for the people who make our clothes
The industrial struggles being played out in garment-producing countries such as Bangladesh and...
Blog: A ‘song of the wage’ for Rana Plaza
Two years after the Rana Plaza tragedy, not much seems to have changed in the global garment...
Blog: Two years on garment workers still toil in virtual slavery
24 April marks two years since the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh, the deadliest...
Blog: How long must Rana Plaza victims wait for justice?
Eighteen months after the Bangladesh factory disaster, bones remain in the rubble and survivors...
Blog: Deadly Fast Fashion
Fast fashion, the business model that dominates our high streets, relies on a simple premise:...
Survivors demand brands pay up
“I felt a shock and the floor gave way. People started running in chaos and the ceiling came down. I kept protecting my head, but I got stuck between the rubble. My hand got stuck and I thought I would die. People around died.” (Shila Begum)