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The Fair Wear Formula
The Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) has recently produced a short film which presents a clear summary of what they do, how they do it, and the reasons why. The organisation works towards fair labour...
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Killer Jeans: Sandblasting continues…
A new report by the Clean Clothes Campaign exposes the continued use of sandblasting in the Bangladesh garment industry, despite it being banned by some big brands and outlawed in Turkey since...
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UBC Law Review publishes Nadira Lamrad’s “Transnational Business, CSR, and...
The University of British Columbia Law Review has recently published one of Nadira’s papers. Nadira presented “Transnational Business, CSR, and Governance in China” at the Corporate Social...
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Sandblasting! Part Deux
Killer Jeans. A campaign by Labour Behind the Label and the Clean Clothes Campaign. The sandblasting saga continues as a completely unnecessary denim distressing technique persists. This despite the...
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READ // Manufacturing governance: global norms and policy diffusion – the...
I am so thrilled to share with you that Nadira’s article “Manufacturing governance: global norms and policy diffusion – the case of the Chinese apparel industry” has been published in the Journal...
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Update // Cambodian garment workers battle for wage hike
A worker’s sign demanding $160/month minimum wages | Image taken at a rally by Mu Sochua, a Cambodian opposition party MP [click the photo to go to her blog]. Last week, Mary reported on the violent...
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POLL // Child labour in the fashion supply chain
(Update: The video embedded below is seemingly no longer available to view online. The video depicted a number of children working in India, sewing clothing for the H&M and Alexander Wang...
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Garment worker wages: select reports on trends and analysis from 2014
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has just released their 2014/2015 Global Wage Report. While the report is not specifically focused on garment worker wages in fashion and apparel systems,...
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LEARN // The WellMade Project
A three year project that began in 2013, WellMade provides free online resources designed to help brands better support labour rights in their supply chains. The Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) is lead...
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WATCH // Udita (Arise): a film on garment making in Bangladesh
On April 24th 2013, the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh. Over 1,130 workers were killed and thousands more were left injured. These workers were producing garments for consumers in...
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WATCH // Modern Slavery: Are we complicit?
Earlier this month I was invited to participate in a panel on modern slavery at the University of Edinburgh, organised by the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability. The panel...
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On the importance of birth certificates in Bangladesh
A screenshot of one of the stop motion animations in ‘My Birth Certificate!’ Birth certificates in Bangladesh. A crucial issue, not often discussed. In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, media,...
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LEARN // Leadership, Feminism and Equality in Unions in Canada
With International Women’s Day around the corner, I just had to share this excellent resource with you: Leadership, Feminism and Equality in Unions in Canada, a project organised by Linda Briskin,...
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WATCH // Media Theorised: Reading against the grain
What role does advertising play in journalism? Who funds and controls media coverage? Why is representation so important? How are stereotypes produced and reproduced through the media? Does the...
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Interview // Artist and activist Robin Pacific, TakeActionFAST campaign
As we mark the 106th anniversary of Triangle (25 March 1911), I wanted to share the work of Canadian artist and activist Robin Pacific. Since 2013 she has been working on a community project to raise...
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