Development and environmental NGOs have launched a public portal highlighting risks in the global supply chain. of clothing, textiles and footwear: www.textile-incidents.info
Human rights are still being violated and the environment is damaged in the textile and clothing sector. The website Textile-Incidents.info documents incidents in Bangladesh’s textile and clothing sector and other essential production countries.
The information collected is intended as a tool for risk analysis within the framework of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the German Supply Chain Act. The German Supply Chain Act and the adopted EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) emphasize the need for companies to conduct reliable risk analyses in their supply chains and to include the perspective of rights holders.
The statutory regulations require companies to eliminate structural risks and individual cases. However, risk analyses and measures are still inadequate.
Therefore, effective collaboration among all stakeholders, including local organizations, workers, communities, civil society organizations, government agencies, ministries, factory management, and international brands, is essential for achieving desired outcomes.
As a civil society partner network of the organizations ESDO and BILS in Bangladesh and FEMNET, INKOTA-Netzwerk, SÜDWIND and HEJSupport in Germany, we see the participation of rights holders and the establishment of “Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement” as essential and indispensable to carry out a careful risk analysis and, above all, to effectively promote the prevention of human rights violations and environmental damage.
www.textile-incidents.info serves as a platform to document and raise awareness about specific human rights abuses and environmental pollution while urging brands, retailers, initiatives, and standards to take proactive measures to investigate these cases with their suppliers and implement corrective actions. The website also provides updates and tracks progress on individual cases.
Textile-Incidents.info is integrated into the NGO program Worker—and Community-based Monitoring, a multi-stakeholder partnership that seeks to promote sustainable procurement practices, respecting ecological limits and ensuring socially just working conditions through dialogue and meaningful stakeholder engagement with NGOs, trade unions, local authorities, purchasing companies, producers, and decision-makers.
Other project partners include Wage Indicator Foundation (WageIndicator) and Mondiaal FNV (MFNV) as well as local organizations such as Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF).
More information: https://textile-incidents.info/about-us.html
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