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Extremely low wages, fixed-term contracts and the suppression of trade unions: Two new studies by FEMNET criticize precarious working conditions in the production of workwear in India and Tunisia. Such goods are also purchased by public institutions in Germany.
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In January 2020, Gisela Burckhardt, Chief Executive Officer, and Sina Marx, Foreign Projects Officer, travelled to India and Bangladesh. We are regularly at our Local partner organisations, to plan together for the future and to convince us that your donations will arrive where they are needed. Here we want to share some personal impressions with you.
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Organizations hand over more than 2,000 signed protest postcards and open letter.
For their outstanding achievements in the field of Deportation of human rights responsibility Several organizations presented the award to the federal government last week. ‘The Golden Exploiter’. The satirical action was Alliance for Fair Trade, the CorA network, the Supply Chain Act initiative, the CCC and WEED carried out.
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FEMNET has been a member of the Alliance for Legal Security for Political Will-Making since 2019. The long-term goal of this alliance is a modern non-profit right, because those who deal with political education and make political demands are in danger of losing their non-profit status.
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Mugilan P. has been coordinating the training programme at MSI-TN, the Indian partner organisation of the Tamil Nadu alliance initiative, since October 2018. In an interview with the Alliance Secretariat of the Textile Alliance, he takes stock of the first year of the initiative.
This interview appeared in Annual Report 2019 of the Alliance for Sustainable Textiles.
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The Alliance for Sustainable Textiles makes gender-based violence in the workplace the new annual theme for 2020. FEMNET has made itself strong for this, because an evaluation of the existing roadmaps (annual plans) of the member companies had shown that not a single manufacturer has taken explicit measures against women discrimination in its supply chain.
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Under what conditions is workwear made? What are the new public procurement directives? And how do companies view fair workwear? With questions like these, we put public procurement back on the button during our multiplier training in October 2019.
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On November 24, 2012, a fire broke out in the Tazreen factory in Bangladesh at 6.30 p.m. Of the more than 1000 workers, 600 were still in the factory. There were no escape exits into the open and the windows were barred. Some workers were able to rip the fans out of the window and jump through the gap from a great height into the depths. 125 workers died in the fire, during the jump from above and later as a result, 150 were injured, some seriously.
Every year since 1991, women's rights organisations have called for a 16-day campaign against violence against women on 25 November. From the International Day Against Violence against Women to the 10th. In December, International Human Rights Day, the campaign draws attention to violence against women as one of the most widespread human rights violations.
On November 15, 2019, Amazon published names, addresses, and more details of over 1,000 suppliers on its website. The fact that the world's largest online retailer is taking this important first step clearly shows that the International transparency campaign effect shows. However, the published list is so far difficult to find, not filterable and still too inaccurate to find out which types of products are produced in the listed plants. Included are producers of clothing, electrical appliances and household goods of the Amazon own brand.
