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Why Are Fashion Brands Still Opening Stores in Xinjiang?
Country: China
Issues: Forced Labor
Rights groups blast Skechers over new store in Xinjiang
Country: China
Issues: Forced Labor
Skechers opens store in Xinjiang amid scrutiny over Uyghur forced labor sanctions
Country: China
Issues: Forced Labor
US Olympic team sponsor caught in clothes factory ‘abuse’ scandal
Country: Jordan
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Forced Labor, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination
Can we trust textile factory audits in China?
Country: China
Issues: Forced Labor
WRC Testimony for Hearing on Factories and Fraud: How Human Rights Violations Make Reliable Audits Impossible
Country: China
Issues: Forced Labor
Scott Nova, Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium, presented testimony to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s April 30, 2024, hearing: “WRC Testimony for Hearing on Factories and Fraud: How Human Rights Violations Make Reliable Audits Impossible.” This testimony includes recommendations related to audit methodological standards and recommends that Congress hold hearings in which it asks…
Companies Sourcing From China Face ‘Severe UFLPA Compliance Dilemma’
Country: China
Issues: Forced Labor
Under Armour and Columbia ‘forced labour’ investigation launched by US
Country: Jordan
Issues: Forced Labor
Broken threads: 5 things to know about troubled college clothing industry
Country: Global
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Covid-19, Forced Labor, Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Living Wage, Wage Theft
Thai El Monte Garment Workers Inducted into US Labor Hall of Honor
Country: United States
Issues: Forced Labor, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination
Twenty-eight years ago last month, consumers opened their newspapers to learn that sweatshops had returned to the US apparel industry, on domestic soil, under conditions unheard of in nearly a century. In August 1995, more than 70 Thai migrant workers were found to be sewing garments sold by major US retailers, under slave labor conditions,…