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New safety initiative launched in India today ignores vital lessons from the past
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Christie Miedema
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28-08-2019
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27-08-2019 20:34
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Pakistan,
Accord,
Bangladesh,
Cambodia,
LABS,
vietnam,
safety
A building safety initiative launching in India today, aimed at improving safety for workers in the country’s garment industry, is set on a path to ignore workers’ voices and replicate mistakes from the past. Although the “Life and Building Safety Initiative” professes to learn from the programme that made factories safe in Bangladesh after the Rana Plaza building collapse, it ignores its most vital elements.
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Why we are staying away from H&M’s living wage summit in Cambodia
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Neva Nahtigal
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10-12-2018
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last modified
11-12-2018 06:21
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filed under:
#TurnAroundHM,
living wage,
H&M,
Cambodia
Clean Clothes Campaign International office declined an invitation to the “Fair living wage summit” that H&M is organizing on 11 December in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We want to make sure that our absence is not misrepresented at the summit or in other situations and are therefore sharing some background that led to that decision.
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Joint statement To Cambodian Gvt re Tola Moeun
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Paul Roeland
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19-02-2018
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last modified
19-02-2018 11:23
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repression,
Cambodia
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Garment workers are waiting for an answer – will H&M deliver on its promise to pay a living wage in 2018?
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Christie Miedema
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25-11-2017
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last modified
24-11-2017 09:26
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filed under:
living wage,
H&M,
Bangladesh,
Cambodia
Four years ago today, H&M made a bold promise that, if kept, would mean a game changer for the industry. On 25 November 2013, the company vowed to pay what H&M calls a ‘fair living wage’ to the garment workers in its supply chain by 2018. On the fourth anniversary of H&M’s historic statement, with 2018 just around the corner, Clean Clothes Campaign and global partners are greatly anticipating the moment next year when every garment worker that stitches clothes for H&M will receive a living wage.
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Brands must speak out about violations in Cambodia
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Ilona Kelly
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03-10-2017
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filed under:
repression,
freedom of association,
trade union law,
human right,
Cambodia
Labour rights organizations are deeply concerned about the closing of democratic and civil society space in Cambodia. This trend has recently escalated with alarming high-profile incidents of repression against political leaders, non-governmental organizations, and independent media. Clean Clothes Campaign, Worker Rights Consortium, and International Labor Rights Forum are calling on multinational apparel companies sourcing from Cambodia to take a stand against this repression, and to urge the Cambodian government to respect human rights and labour rights.
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M&S, Bonmarché and Nygård should compensate Cambodian workers after factory closure
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Christie Miedema
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published
11-07-2017
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last modified
11-07-2017 07:50
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filed under:
factory closure,
urgent appeal,
Cambodia,
severance pay
The sudden closure of a garment factory linked to UK and Canadian brands has left 208 workers in Cambodia without jobs, salaries or compensation. A year later these workers, largely women, are still fighting for justice and are in a desperate situation.
As they stitched clothes for UK brands Marks and Spencer and Bonmarché, as well as Canadian brand Nygård, the workers are demanding that these companies take responsibility and give them the legally due payments that their supplier failed to provide.
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Labour rights violations in H&M's "best in class" supplier factories in Cambodia
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Christie Miedema
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published
23-09-2016
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last modified
23-09-2016 06:55
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filed under:
living wage,
H&M,
freedom of association,
Cambodia
Working conditions in garment factories in Cambodia supplying H&M are far from decent even in those that H&M considers to be «best in class». This is the conclusion of a report released by Cambodian NGO Center for Alliance of Labor & Human Rights (CENTRAL) and Future In Our Hands, which represents Clean Clothes Campaign in Norway. The report «When ‘best’ is far from good enough» is based on interviews with workers and describes labour rights violations in four of H&M’s key suppliers in Cambodia.
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CCC condemns assassination Cambodian activist
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Mirjam van Heugten
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19-07-2016
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last modified
20-07-2016 12:14
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filed under:
black monday,
human right,
Cambodia
Clean Clothes Campaign is shocked by the murder of Kem Ley, a Cambodian political analyst and ally of the labour movement. He was shot in broad daylight on Sunday early morning, just days after Kem Ley spoke on a radio talk show on the prime minister's possible involvement in corruption and after being involved in the Black Monday Movement.
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Unions Cambodia condemn violence used on peaceful protesters
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Mirjam van Heugten
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28-04-2016
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last modified
28-04-2016 09:37
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filed under:
Cambodia,
wages,
H&M,
Levi's,
freedom of association
After the controversial new Trade Union Law was passed on 4 April, unions call on brands to continue pushing the Government to consider the independent trade unions’ proposal for improvements on the proposed draft of trade union law in line with the Constitution and international laws. They condemn the violence that was used against peaceful protesters by the security guards.
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Open letter to all brands sourcing from Cambodia
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Mirjam van Heugten
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22-03-2016
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last modified
04-04-2016 13:48
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wages,
H&M,
freedom of association,
Cambodia
Clean Clothes Campaign published an open letter to all brands in Cambodia to publicly support freedom of association and independent unions in Cambodia. We call upon the brands, representatives for H&M, Inditex, C&A, Levi Strauss, Marks & Spencer, Tchibo, Primark and other brands to widely disseminate a public support statement, for a Trade Union Law which fully complies with ILO Conventions 87 and 98 as a condition for future sourcing from the country.
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