On 27 and 28 March 2023, FEMNET organised two project days in the 8th grade of the Bobinger Realschule. A student reports from practice.
- Details
News about Our Work -
© FEMNET
The close contact and regular exchange with our partners and local seamstresses forms the basis of our commitment to strengthening rights, due diligence and fair purchasing practices in the Global South.
- Details
Gender equality and health and safety at work need to be considered together, especially for textile and footwear factories where women are predominantly employed. Launched in December 2021 Multi-stakeholder partnership (MAP) We have started implementing gender-responsive health and safety at work. A lot has happened since then!
- Details
© Aurora
The future is female. Without women who are equal and leaders in decision-making, there will be no strong and just societies.
- Details
In the run-up to International Women's Day, more than 140 organisations, including FEMNET, are addressing the EU Commission, members of parliament and the EU Council in an open letter. They call for gender equality to be taken into account in the Directives on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD) published by the EU Commission. In view of the upcoming trilogue negotiations between the EU Commission, Parliament and Council on an EU supply chain law, it is crucial to make the directives effective and gender-responsive.
- Details
FEMNET welcomes the Federal Government's plan to strengthen environmental and climate friendliness as well as the social sustainability of public procurement. In a 12-page opinion as part of the public consultation process, we identify concrete opportunities for improvement.
- Details
The Klima & Klamotten-Jugendredaktion launched its first podcast episode last week! In it, she shares excerpts from an interview with Kai Nebel, Head of the research focus on sustainability and recycling at the Faculty of Textile & Design at Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences, as well as insights into our own reflection processes on how to deal with clothing.
- Details
© J.F. Briggs
In November 2021, civil society in the Textile Coalition called for a more effective and effective Textile Coalition from the newly launched Traffic Light Coalition. What developments have taken place in the Textile Alliance and how should its restructuring be assessed?
It took around a year for the Textile Alliance to adopt a new structure, which was decided at the General Assembly in November 2022. In the following, the representatives of civil society in the Textile Alliance give an assessment of the new structure.
- Details
Although the German government has advocated an effective EU supply chain law in the coalition agreement, German MEPs - in particular the European People's Party (EPP) - are actively trying to make the future EU law ineffective. Together with an alliance of 130 development, environmental, human rights and trade unions, FEMNET advocates an effective EU supply chain law and addresses the MEP, Axel Voss, with an open letter.
- Details
Bonn. On 1 January 2023, the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) entered into force in Germany. From the point of view of NGOs, it is a good start, but we are not yet at the finish line. At EU level, the Commission’s proposal for an EU due diligence law has been in place since February 2022 and at the beginning of December 2022, EU Member States agreed on their provisional position in the Council. The Committee on Legal Affairs is currently preparing the position of the European Parliament. Time and again, the question arises as to whether multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) and certifications should play a role as proof of compliance with companies' human rights and environmental due diligence obligations, and if so, which ones? For some, membership in an MSI or submission of a certification should already be proof that the company complies with its due diligence obligations. Others hope that by joining MSI or using recognized certifications, companies can no longer be held liable for slight negligence.
All these discussed roles for MSI and certifications consider the NGOs signing here to be dangerous loopholes to the detriment of people and the environment, which must be prevented. This short paper puts together the main arguments against these loopholes (safe harbour).
- Details
More Articles …
- Finally: German cabinet decides to ratify ILO Convention 190 on the Elimination of Harassment and Violence in the Workplace
- Women, fashion, fairness: FEMNET looks at successes for human rights in fashion
- International Security Agreement Extended to Pakistan
- From Blaumann to Multinorm: Own businesses rent sustainably
- The Alliance for Sustainable Textiles gives itself a new structure
- Active for Human Rights in Fashion - Student Action Manual
- Active for human rights in fashion - Action manual for schools
- ‘Diverse and very specific’ – the Klima & Klamotten city tour in Cologne-Ehrenfeld
- Repair Brunch is back - Presence date as a repair café in Cologne for the first time
- Maximum exploitation: The cost of the pandemic
- Statement of the Supply Chain Act Initiative on the ARD Monitor Report of 27.10.22
- Call for action: Active for sustainable procurement
- Clothes exchange: Swap, don’t shop
- Made in Bangladesh – Film screenings in cooperation with JHSG Amnesty International Cologne and the Clean Clothes Campaign
- Justice concerns us all: Civil society and trade unions from all over Europe launch campaign