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AAFA Releases Heat Stress Guidance to Protect Garment Workers
As the world gets warmer and garment workers in the global South continue to bear the brunt of rising…
Progress Over Perfection: Lessons From Garment Factories Fighting Heat Stress
As growing temperatures endanger worker wellbeing, three factories in Cambodia and Vietnam are treating…
2030 is Nearly Here. Can Fashion Still Make Good on Its Climate Promises?
For all its talk about "collective action" and "industry alignment," the fashion industry's carbon emissions…
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Inside the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
The Cornell Global Labor Initiative proposes new outcomes metrics to strengthen the EU's newly passed ESG…
Fashion Production’s Climate Crisis in 4 Graphs
Research shows that some of the most critical garment-producing geographies are in severe peril from a…
Gender Discrimination in Fashion Supply Chains: What Should Companies Report?
An absence of data regarding wage disparities and women in management positions at factories could soon be…
Fashion is ‘Sleepwalking’ into a Climate Catastrophe. Bangladesh is in the Bullseye.
The "elephant in the room?" Building a collective strategy for decarbonization without overburdening garment…
Has Fashion Learned Anything From Covid? (You Already Know the Answer.)
A top academic hopes the industry will channel "what's left of the energy and the anxiety of the Covid…
‘This is a Crisis Response’: Is it Time for a Global Garment Workers Severance Fund?
Garment workers worldwide are increasingly being denied severance wages. Should brands and retailers take…
Do Garment Workers Really Have Freedom of Association? Here’s What the Data Says
In many manufacturing regions unionizing is verboten, and where it is tolerated compliance meets the letter…
New Balance Exec on Reshoring, $22,000 Freight Rates and ‘Defying Gravity’
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Improving the Integrity, Intelligence and Impact of Factory Audits
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