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The International German Gymnastics Festival Leipzig 2025 sends a strong signal for sustainability in sport. As part of the fairness campaign "Sport Fairändert - Our club, our values. For a fair future", a competition of ideas was launched, which encourages sports clubs to develop innovative projects for greater social and ecological commitment in the field of textile products.

Details: Category: Nachhaltiger Textileinkauf für den Privatsektor; Published: 13 March 2025

International Women's Day 2025 is celebrated internationally. Motto #AccelerateAction It is therefore crucial to address the systemic and structural gender biases embedded in global supply chains. Women in clothing and footwear factories continue to face an increased risk of gender-based violence and health threats. Nevertheless, their specific needs are consistently overlooked in legal frameworks, corporate guidelines and workplace structures.

The Multi-Actor Partnership (MAP) on Gender and Health in the Clothing and Shoe Industry, consisting of Cividep India, TURC Indonesia, FEMNET and SOUTHWIND, seeks to address these injustices through political advocacy and worker-oriented solutions. The findings highlight the urgent need for gender-responsive occupational health and safety (G*OSH) guidelines to address both physical and mental health issues.

Details: Category: Gendergerechter Gesundheitsschutz; Published: 06 March 2025

In an appeal published today, more than 70 politicians, companies, economists and civil society organisations call for the protection of the EU Supply Chain Directive.

Details: Category: Lieferkettengesetz; Published: 26 February 2025

A Thai worker holds up a sign saying 'Otto - Help us to get our wages back'

"I want to say to OTTO that we have been making clothes for ten years," says Hnin Hnin*, a worker from Myanmar who made clothes for OTTO brands in the Thai Royal Knitting factory. “We have been harmed and feel hopeless, but we want help to get the money we deserve.”

In April 2020, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the management of the Royal Knitting Factory in Thailand dismissed Hnin Hnin and a further 208 employees without notice. More than 90 percent of those affected are women from Myanmar. Their employer unlawfully refused them wages for work done and severance pay. Almost five years later, and despite the Thai court ruling against Royal Knitting, the 209 workers are still waiting for over $1,000,000 in unpaid wages and severance payments.

Details: Category: Unternehmensverantwortung; Published: 13 February 2025

The Global Nature Fund (GNF) and the Traditionsclub 1. FC Nürnberg have started a cooperation as part of the Fair Wear Works project. Together, they are committed to sustainable textiles in sports and merchandise as well as fair textile supply chains. The cooperation aims not only to promote ecological standards in purchasing, but also to strengthen social justice in the global textile industry.

Details: Category: Nachhaltiger Textileinkauf für den Privatsektor; Published: 30 January 2025

The International German Gymnastics Festival 2025 cooperates with the Global Nature Fund as part of the ‘Fair Wear Works’ project. The aim of the cooperation is to provide clubs with practical information and assistance for responsible purchasing of sports textiles. During the gymnastics festival, there will be numerous information and workshops on sustainable sports textiles and the volunteers will receive GOTS-certified gymnastics bags.

Details: Category: Nachhaltiger Textileinkauf für den Privatsektor; Published: 09 January 2025

Annual meeting of the Association of Critical Shareholders on 14 September 2024 in Cologne discusses the Supply Chain Act.

Cologne/Bonn. At the annual meeting of the Association of Critical Shareholders, experts will discuss whether the German Supply Chain Act has already had a positive effect and what expectations are associated with the European Supply Chain Act. This year, the umbrella organisation is awarding its group-critical Henry Mathews Prize to Dr. Gisela Burckhardt and the organisation FEMNET.

Details: Category: Lieferkettengesetz; Published: 10 September 2024

FEMNET Chairwoman Dr. Gisela Burckhardt comments: "With today's proposal to suspend the LkSG for two years, Habeck stabs all those who have been fighting for years for a legal regulation in the back. It unsettles companies, civil society feels fooled. This could have implications for the EU elections."

Details: Category: Lieferkettengesetz; Published: 07 June 2024

Berlin. In the future, large companies in the EU will have to work towards compliance with human rights and environmental standards in their supply chains. Der Rat der Europäischen Union hat die entsprechende Richtlinie, das sogenannte EU-Lieferkettengesetz, heute final beschlossen. This puts an end to months of political tug-of-war, in which the FDP in particular wanted to bring the project down on the German side. EU Member States now have two years to transpose the project into national law. The Federal Government must adapt the existing German Supply Chain Act accordingly.

Details: Category: Lieferkettengesetz; Published: 24 May 2024

Joint press release from FEMNET, the Clean Clothes Campaign and the Association of Critical Shareholders

Bonn, Cologne, Berlin – On the occasion of Hugo Boss’s upcoming annual general meeting on 14 May 2024, FEMNET, the Campaign for Clean Clothes (CCC) and the umbrella organisation of Critical Shareholders criticise the unilateral sustainability strategy and question whether Hugo Boss complies with its due diligence obligations under the German Supply Chain Act.

Details: Category: Unternehmensverantwortung; Published: 13 May 2024

Press release of the Clean Clothes Campaign 22.04.2024

Wednesday, April 24, 2024, marks the 11th anniversary of the worst tragedy in the fashion industry: the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed 1,138 people. On this occasion, Artemisa Ljarja from the Campaign for Clean Clothes Germany draws the following conclusion: "Although unprecedented progress has been made in improving safety in factories since then, the brutal crackdown on the protests for the increase in the minimum wage shows that fashion brands producing in Bangladesh still do not ensure that basic rights are respected in their supply chains."

Details: Category: Unternehmensverantwortung; Published: 23 April 2024

Bonn. Over a decade ago, in April 2013, the devastating collapse of the Rana Plaza building occurred with over 1000 fatalities, revealing the urgent need for improved safety measures in the garment industry. Since then, significant progress has been made through the Accord safety agreement, but accidents at work remain a sad reality.

Details: Category: Unfallversicherungen in Bangladesch; Published: 25 March 2024

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Turnfest Leipzig 2025: Kick-off for the ideas competition as part of the fairness campaign "Sport Fairändert"

The hidden costs of fashion: Structural change needed for women's safety and health in clothing and footwear factories

Broad resistance to dilution of the EU Supply Chain Directive

Workers in Thailand produced clothes for Otto Group brands – they have been waiting for their wages for five years

Global Nature Fund and 1. FC Nürnberg start cooperation for fair and sustainable textiles in sports & merchandise

Sustainability in the focus of the Turnfest 2025

Henry Mathews Award to Dr. Gisela Burckhardt and FEMNET

Annual meeting of the Association of Critical Shareholders on 14 September 2024 in Cologne discusses the Supply Chain Act.

Going it alone on the Supply Chain Act: Habeck stabs Greens and responsible companies in the back

EU Supply Chain Act takes final hurdle - paradigm shift in human rights and environmental protection

Why is your sustainability strategy lacking social aspects, Hugo Boss?

Eleven years after Rana Plaza: Textile factories safer, triggers of the disaster remain

First accident insurance for textile workers in Bangladesh

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