MODE. POWER. MENSCHEN. is a documentary film by director Patrick Kohl about the textile and clothing industry in Cambodia.
The film is divided into eight episodes and is available on YouTube.
Recherchetool für Materialien
Research Tool for Materials
The materials database contains media on our key topics of working conditions in the textile and clothing industry and the environmental impact of clothing. The types of media include studies, guidelines and reports, as well as films, podcasts and web tools.
In this podcast, Sabine Ferenschild explains what you should pay attention to when choosing clothes and gives insights into the complexity of the textile production chain.
The sustainability label ‘Grüner Knopf’ advertises with the slogans ‘social.ecological.state-independently certified’. However, the criteria and tests of the Green Button are not strong enough, and so the label also adorns products from companies that insufficiently ensure compliance with human rights. In order to obtain the seal, companies must demonstrate not only product-related requirements but also aspects of human rights due diligence, identify risks, address them with appropriate measures and publicly report on them.
The present study analyses the public communication of 31 companies and finds that the Green Button falls significantly short of the public communication requirements formulated in the OECD Guide in its current implementation. If companies communicate risks and measures only abstractly or not related to their supply chain, they should not receive recognition in the form of state certification. In order to counter the risk of the promotion of a superficial due diligence communication, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) as the sealing institution must actively improve.
The flyer gives an overview of the problems of textile production and answers questions such as: How much clothing is thrown away each year? Under what conditions do the seamstresses work? What is an existential wage?
On the back, you will find ten solutions for how everyone can contribute to fair fashion. The flyer can be folded up like a T-shirt and is suitable for school classes as well as information and awareness material.
More and more consumers are paying attention to sustainability when purchasing textiles. The clothing should be ecologically correct and fair. But how do you actually recognize appropriate textiles? The flyer provides an overview of the most important textile seals and their criteria. It also includes an assessment of their credibility and effectiveness.