Clean Clothes Campaign

This is based on an analysis that we did in collaboration with @consumentenbond.bsky.social and @somoamsterdam.bsky.social - read more below:

Social auditing enables worker abuse. Market authorities can put an end to it Emma Vogt is the urgent appeal co-ordinator at the Clean Clothes Campaign Consumers and workers are being failed by weak regulation around labour conditions in the fashion industry

In @sustainableviews.bsky.social today: our op-ed by @emmavogt.bsky.social about the need for market authorities to intervene in the common practice of fashion brands to make claims about labour conditions based on unreliable commercial audits: www.sustainableviews.com/social-audit...

Audited ≠ Ethical: how fashion brands mislead consumers - SOMO “No forced labour”, “a safe working environment”, and “fair pay”: these are promises clothing brands readily use in advertisements to reassure consumers seeking clean clothing. But what are these clai...

Exposed: Many fashion brands claim to be socially responsible. But these promises are often based on unreliable audits. 🚩

🔎 Together with Consumentenbond and @cleanclothes.bsky.social, we analysed the ‘social washing’ of brands like Nike and Puma.

Here's what we found: www.somo.nl/audited-ethi...

Webinar February 19th - 11am CET / 4pm BDT. Green industry, grey realities. Between LEED's factories and Just Transition: Pathways for the RMG Sector in Bangladesh.

CCC Italy released an insightful report today about the labour conditions at certified 'green' factories. You can read it here: cleanclothes.org/file-reposit... And learn more in the webinar they're organising on 19 February at 11am CET! Registration at: eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Trade Unionist is free - but repression continues! YouTube video by Labour Behind the Label

Iqbal Abdo is free! But trade union repression in Pakistan continues @cleanclothes.bsky.social : youtube.com/shorts/7E2YR...

📣60+ European and French NGOs call on @ec.europa.eu to support a draft French law that seeks to rein in the most harmful commercial practices in the fashion sector - and not to hamper it.

✉️Read our letter: eeb.org/en/library/n... @amisdelaterre.org

🚨Omnibus I Political agreement

Early this morning, EU institutions reached a political agreement that marks a turning point:
👉 The first rollback of an adopted due diligence law in history
👉 The first major file pushed through via an EPP–far right alliance
www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...

Despite earning billions, major fashion brands neglect basic safeguards like ventilation, rest breaks, and clean water, leaving workers to endure dangerous heat.
By Cara Schulte
@caraschulte.bsky.social
@climaterights.bsky.social

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/03-Dec-2025/...

#workersrights

Fashion Brands Ignore Deadly Heat As Karachi Garment Workers Struggle To Survive Workers in Karachi’s garment factories face dangerous heat, labour abuses, and little protection as major global fashion brands fail to address climate-related

Workers in Karachi’s garment factories face rising heat, unsafe conditions, and little protection as global fashion brands fail to address climate-driven risks.
By Cara Schulte
@caraschulte.bsky.social
@climaterights.bsky.social

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/03-Dec-2025/...

📢 CRI’s new investigation by @caraschulte.bsky.social and Zia Ur Rehman shows how extreme heat + labor abuses are putting #Karachi garment workers at serious risk – while global #fashion brands fail to protect them. #Pakistan Accord talks offer a chance to act. Read here: cri.org/reports/they...

EC hails Omnibus ESG package – but critics say it sends wrong message - The Loadstar The EC has hailed its Omnibus I simplification package as “a significant step forward in relieving companies from administrative burden”.

The Omnibus is a serious setback in the fight against forced labour and a letdown for workers around the world. By dismantling key protections in the #CSDDD, it sends a dangerous signal to the world—that corporate interests take precedence over human rights.

🔗 theloadstar.com/ec-hails-omn...

And despite the EU watchdog's findings, the European Council and Parliament have doubled down, sidelining the calls from civil society, academia, legal experts and progressive business.

We are deeply disappointed with this outcome.

For months, Anti-Slavery International, together with @clientearth.bsky.social, @cleanclothes.bsky.social, @eccjorg.bsky.social, @foeeurope.bsky.social, @globalwitness.org, and others have been warning about the risks of rolling back environmental and human rights protections through the #Omnibus.

“They Don’t See What Heat Does to Our Bodies”: Climate Change, Labor Rights, and the Cost of Fashion in Karachi, Pakistan

New @climaterights.bsky.social report is live. Garment + textile mill workers in Karachi’s international fashion supply chains face extreme heat (45°C), fainting, forced OT + unsafe water. Pakistan Accord renegotiations offer brands an opportunity to address risks.

More here: bit.ly/4pOxUqU

Exposed🚨

1️⃣1️⃣ multinational companies have been working together closely behind the scenes to get the #CSDDD either scrapped or massively diluted

Key investigation from our member @somoamsterdam.bsky.social

@somoamsterdam.bsky.social exposes what we already suspected: attacks on human rights due diligence legislation were never about "simplification," they were about maintaining impunity for some of the world's biggest polluters. US companies are conspiring to undo democratically adopted laws

Brands should should proactively check whether their factories are mitigating heat effects for workers. The logical vehicle for this would be the Accord.

Furthermore, workers often do not have enough breaks or access to clean water to be able to withstand the heat.
Brands sourcing from Pakistan are responsible to ensure that their workers are not risking their lives or health at work.

With temperatures reaching over 40C in the hottest time of year, workers continue working in factories and mills that are not adapted to ensure workers' health is protected: “Many garment units are built like sealed boxes. The priority is to protect the product, not the people who stitch it.”

Pakistan: Workers Suffer as Fashion Brands Fail to Act on Extreme Heat Workers in international fashion and home goods supply chains in Karachi are enduring severe physical, mental, and financial hardship in dangerously hot workplace conditions, while consumers and multi...

Climate Rights International today released an important report about the effect of heat on workers in Pakistani factories and mills. Brands sourcing from the factories where the researchers collected their data include H&M, Inditex, GAP, MANGO, ASOS, C&A, NA-KD, NEXT, IKEA.
cri.org/pakistan-wor...

✊🏽 We stand in solidarity with workers all across South East Asia who are affected by the flooding. We call on garment brands to ensure that workers continue to be paid & to ensure factories are safe before they reopen. We need a just transition that centres workers. cleanclothes.org/news/2025/fa...

🇦🇺 Australian parliamentarians are joining workers and unions to send a clear message to Amazon: enough is enough. It’s time to #MakeAmazonPay.

✊ Today workers across Europe are taking action against Amazon.

❌ Amazon exploits its workers
❌ Has close ties with the Israeli military
❌ Is a monopolist

As the company is under intense scrutiny, it has ramped up its lobby power in the EU 🧵

#MakeAmazonPay

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/w...

BANGLADESH: A decade after Rana Plaza, workers still die for fast fashion, Amazon can change that, but won’t maktoobmedia.com/opinion/a-de...

Workers Who Make Black Friday Deals Possible Face Attacks on Right to Organize New reports detail how the fashion industry relies on underpaid and overworked labor in the Global South.

ASIA: Workers Who Make Black Friday Deals Possible Face Attacks on Right to Organize truthout.org/articles/wor...

In @amnesty.org's Stitched-Up report the establishment of a union & collective bargaining agreement in a Sri Lankan NEXT factory is described as a hard won workers' success. Yet in May 2025 the factory suddenly closed without consulting the union or respecting the agreement. We see union busting!

Global garment industry profits from denial of right to unionize Major fashion brands are growing on the back of underpaid work.

Human rights abuse is rife in South Asia’s garment industry, as @amnesty.org's🆕reports shows.

To stop the abuse, tick-box audits of factory conditions aren't enough. We need:
✔Supply-chain transparency
✔Published audits
✔Sourcing practices that centre workers' rights
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Global garment industry profits from denial of right to unionize Major fashion brands are growing on the back of underpaid work.

A new @amnesty.org report shows that garment brands around the world prof from the repression of workers' right to unionise. Well known brands overwhelmingly source from factories without unions. Brands who still wonder why this is a problem must urgently read this: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Hulu Garment Call on adidas and Amazon to ensure justice for their workers.

Want to set a signal on Black Friday? Show your solidarity with the workers who were cheated out of their jobs 5 years ago. They made clothes for Amazon & Adidas who are set to make millions today. Use our e-mail tool & remind them of the workers they abandoned: cleanclothes.org/campaigns/hulu

BREAKING: The EU watchdog just replied to our complaints. And she stands with us.

She has found that the @ec.europa.eu committed maladministration when it prepared its Omnibus I and 2024 CAP proposals to roll back key environmental protections.

Here are the findings:⬇️