Posts Tagged ‘living wage’
Students Plead for Action
Secondary students in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand will challenge a global audience, during the February 8 online pilgrimage, to make better choices when buying food, clothes and electrical goods, particularly phones. Exploited or enslaved labour is used in much of the goods we buy and students are pleading with consumers to ‘Fight 4 Fair’.…
Read MoreUse New Guide to Make Change
Speak Out is the message in the recently launched 2022 Baptist World Aid (BWA) Ethical Fashion Report. The report’s authors are demanding fashion brands ‘escalate action to address modern slavery, worker exploitation and unsustainable environmental practices throughout their supply chains’. The call to consumers to Speak Out comes after the report revealed: The report states that,…
Read MoreCongratulations Myer
The Oxfam What She Makes campaign was launched in 2017. ACRATH has been active in supporting this campaign asking that big clothing brands pay the women who make our clothes a living wage. Myer has published their factory lists and made a commitment to ensure the women who make their clothes are paid a living…
Read MoreRemembering Rana Plaza
April 24th 2022 marks the ninth anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This building housed five garment factories. As a result of the collapse more than 1,130 people lost their lives and over 2,500 were injured. This event helped to highlighted issues of worker exploitation in the fashion industry.…
Read MoreGarment Worker’s Rights
For many years NGOs have been advocating for a living wage for garment workers. In 2017 Oxfam launched the What She Makes campaign to progress this issue. Without a living wage women working in the garment industry are living in poverty. Recently, Oxfam Australia’s side session at the OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the…
Read MoreA Matter of Taste
Report on Chocolate ‘A Matter of Taste’ examines how three different supply chain actors within the chocolate industry – certification bodies, chocolate manufacturers and cocoa production companies – are attempting to address the issue of child labour, worst forms of child labour and human trafficking on cocoa farms in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. It explores…
Read MoreA Matter of Taste
The Impact of Certification Systems Since 2000 the world has been aware of the scandal of children being trafficked to harvest and produce cocoa in West Africa. In 2001 the global chocolate industry publically acknowledged the use of forced, child and trafficked labour in their operations and signed a collective agreement – the Harkin-Engel Protocol –…
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