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With popcorn and living room atmosphere, we brought the feature film ‘Made in Bangladesh’ to the screen in the motoki living room in Cologne-Ehrenfeld on 14 September 2022. During the subsequent reality check, Sina Marx from the Clean Clothes Campaign and Ruth Helmingdirks from FEMNET showed how film and reality match.
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...Action workshop on the Supply Chain Act.
In the ballroom, the community tent of the Fairquer initiative and the student council of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, found the supporting program of the Recruiting Messe MG is attracting instead. On 20 May 2022, FEMNET was able to design a workshop for the students, which included not only an input on the content of the supply chain, but also an action workshop to develop their own options for action.
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In small steps back into classroom teaching - the annual training for the FEMNET speakers took place in hybrid format this year. In a two-day event, new educational approaches were taught.
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In blue skies and sunshine, the exchange tables were moved to the courtyard of ZeSaBo on 23 April 2022: Volunteers from the Bonn local groups of Greenpeace and Amnesty International, in cooperation with FEMNET, invited to the second change of clothes at ZeSaBo. The action attracted many people who brought well-preserved, no longer beloved clothes and found new favorite parts between the clothes racks and jeans stacks.
In the Department of Textile and Clothing Technology at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, the interdisciplinary 5. Semester project an integral part of teaching. In the winter semester 2021/22, the students were commissioned to design an accompanying publication to the student conference ‘It’s time to act – Acting for a socially fair fashion industry’.
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The longer and more complex the supply chain, the higher the risk of maladministration and infringement. A prime example of this are textiles: According to the Global Slavery Index, garments are among the imported products with the second highest risk of human rights violations within global supply chains. Until a T-shirt hangs in the stores, it travels up to 20,000 kilometers; 100 steps alone are necessary for production. As part of a cooperation project, FEMNET worked on these topics in four different series of events in 2021.
The impact of the coronavirus crisis on supply chains, the legal or voluntary impact on human and labour rights, corporate responsibility and, last but not least, the question of an economy for the future – these thematic lines provided the framework for this year’s FEMNET student conference.
The future leaders of an industry that is in deep crisis and facing fundamental changes were given a comprehensive insight into the complex challenges of the global fashion and textile industry on two conference days. In total, more than 120 people attended the conference. In addition to 70 ‘regular’ participants and speakers, representatives of student initiatives, associations and organisations also participated in the conference.
Since spring, an active group of students from Berlin and Mönchengladbach have met regularly in the digital space. From the cooperation between Luminous x Fair Fashion, Fairquer FEMNET is a film series about human rights and fashion.
When the weather was nice, volunteers from Greenpeace Bonn opened the exchange tables in the courtyard of the Central Collection Camp Bonn (ZeSaBo). The action attracted many people who found new old treasures between coat racks and sweater stacks.
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