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192 Civil Society Organizations Call on Apparel Brands to Leave the XUAR
Groups from around the world are pressing brands and retailers to end their complicity in forced labor and stop sourcing from the Uyghur Region, at every level of the supply chain.
Gap Agrees to Pay for Previously Canceled and Discounted Orders
By honoring its obligations to suppliers, Gap will avert harm to tens of thousands of garment workers.
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Which Brands Are Honoring Commitments to Suppliers and Workers?
The WRC is tracking which brands and retailers are paying for goods that are finished or in-production and which are breaking their commitments, with devastating consequences for workers in their supply chains.
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180+ Orgs Demand Apparel Brands End Complicity in Uyghur Forced Labour
Today, 72 Uyghur rights groups are joined by over 100 civil society organisations and labour unions from around the world in calling on apparel brands and retailers to stop using forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“Uyghur Region”), known to local people as East Turkistan, and end their complicity in the Chinese government’s…
Covid-19 Tracker: Updates and Analysis
The WRC is tracking which brands and retailers are paying for goods that are finished or in-production and which are breaking their commitments, with devastating consequences for workers in their supply chains. Our tracker now also features a section for Updates and Analysis. Photo credit: REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Two crises, one flawed supply chain model: How the imbalance of power in global supply chains harms workers
On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza factory collapse claimed the lives of 1,137 garment workers in Bangladesh and injured thousands more. The tragedy, which was the deadliest disaster in a manufacturing facility in human history, put a spotlight on the grossly unsafe labor conditions plaguing Bangladesh’s garment sector and catalyzed fundamental reform. The international…
More Brands Paying for Orders, but Many Have yet to Follow Suit
The WRC has been working for the last two months to address the most urgent challenge facing garment workers: the decision of many leading apparel brands and retailers, at the outset of the Covid-19 crisis, to retroactively cancel apparel orders that suppliers and workers had already produced. This sudden withdrawal of billions of dollars in contractually…