Herausgeber*in: Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte

Autor*in: Jan-Christian Niebank

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Bekleidungsindustrie, Due Diligence, Gesundheit, Gewerkschaften, Lieferkette, Löhne, Menschenrechte, Textilindustrie, Verbesserungsvorschläge, Zwangsarbeit

Kurzbeschreibung:

The garment industry is an important economic growth engine for the Asia-Pacific region. It is also an industry with a rather poor human rights track record. This study seeks to take stock of developments in the global garment industry. It does so by analysing structural market characteristics and pressing human rights issues as well as existing instruments and initiatives. Specific attention is paid to the role of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) and to development policies in the global North. Analytically, the investigation is guided by the framework of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP). Important input for the study was obtained at a joint workshop held by the German Institute for Human Rights and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) in Bangkok in January 2017 at which NHRI representatives from Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, and Thailand shared their expertise on human rights issues in the garment industry and discussed the challenges their NHRIs are facing.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2018

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 78 Seiten

Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende

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Herausgeber_in: Südwind e.V. Institut für Ökonomie und Ökumene

Autor_innen: Dr. Jiska Gojowczyk

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Armut, COVID-19, Corona, Gesundheit, Indien, Lieferketten, Länderbericht, Leder, Löhne, Politik, Schuh – und Lederproduktion, Unternehmensverantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung:

Extreme Einkommensverluste, fristlose Kündigungen, keine sozialen Sicherungssysteme – im Zuge der Covid-19-Pandemie bangen Arbeiter*innen der indischen Schuh- und Lederproduktion um die Sicherung ihrer täglichen Lebensgrundlagen. Das belegt die neue Studie „Wenn aus zu wenig fast nichts wird“, die Südwind und das INKOTA-netzwerk sowie die indischen INKOTA-Partnerorganisationen Cividep und SLD erstellt haben.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 24 Seiten

Sprache: Deutsch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: IHRB & Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh studies at UC Berkeley

Autor_innen: Sanchita Banerjee Saxen, Nancy Reyes Mullins, Salil Tripathi

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsrechte, Bangladesch, Bekleidungsindustrie, COVID-19, Corona, Gesundheit, Krise, Lohn, Lieferkette, Menschenrechte, Politik, Standards, Studie, textile Kette, Unternehmensverantwortung, Untersuchung

Kurzbeschreibung:

The RMG industry, which accounts for approximately 80% of Bangladesh’s total exports, is a major contributor to the country’s economic advancement. As the coronavirus12 spread across the world in early 2020 and a lockdown in Bangladesh became inevitable, businesses were forced to respond quickly to the evolving situation. This report seeks to capture the responses of global brands and the subsequent effects on workers in the immediate aftermath. The report is drawn from indepth interviews with international brands, Bangladeshi suppliers, representatives of the international civil society, and Bangladeshi labour activists. It seeks to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry and the workers. It proposes changes to policies and practices that can lead to long-term changes that would benefit global retailers, suppliers, and workers.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 71 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: University of Sheffield’s, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI), Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)

Autor_in: Genevieve LeBaron, Penelope Kyritsis, Perla Polanco Leal, Michael Marshall

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Äthiopien, Bekleidungsindustrie, COVID-19, Corona, Gesundheit, Indien, Interviews, Lieferkette, Lohn, Menschenrechte, Myanmar, Politik, textile Kette, Transparenz

Kurzbeschreibung:

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed and amplified inequities and instabilities within the global garment supply chains feeding United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), Canadian, and European Union (EU) consumer markets. In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed and consumer demand for clothes plummeted, MNCs cancelled orders and refused to pay for apparel that had already been produced.1 Even as governments made vast public funds available to help them weather disruption and shocks, many MNCs continued to eschew contractual obligations and transfer losses and risks onto their supply chain partners overseas.
The key aims of the research are to:
1) understand and compare whether, to what extent, and how the Covid-19 pandemic is deepening worker vulnerability to forced labour (Ethiopia, Honduras, India, and Myanmar)
2) determine and compare how company and government responses to the pandemic are shaping patterns of inequity within the garment supply chain
3) investigate how governance in global garment supply chains has changed during the pandemic and with what consequences for workers and companies
To explore these questions, the research complied a new primary dataset between September 2020 and April 2021, consisting of:

• Quantitative digital survey of workers in Ethiopia, Honduras, India, and Myanmar
• Interviews with workers in Ethiopia, Honduras, and India
• Expert interviews
• Database of 2020/2021 annual financial statements and sustainability reports and government information about pandemic business financing and assistance and social protection

 
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 59 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Afrika, Äthiopien, Befragung, Bekleidungsindustrie, COVID-19, Gesundheit, Lohn, Politik, soziale Verantwortung, textile Kette, Transparenz, Untersuchung

Kurzbeschreibung:

The negative economic and public health shocks of COVID-19 are reverberating in Ethiopia, and in particular in the country’s garment and textile sector.
A global collapse in demand for garments has been witnessed since the first quarter of 2020, following measures by governments to slow the spread of the pandemic. Restrictions on movement and economic activity has produced widespread retail closures and effects throughout supply chains, including prompting factory production suspensions and workforce layoffs. Cancellation of orders has left some garment manufacturers unable to pay workers as required.
A survey among Ethiopian manufacturers in April revealed the average capacity utilization rate had decreased by 30 per cent in Q1 2020 relative to the same period in 2019. Fully half of management respondents in the same survey said they expected employee layoffs in the second quarter of the year. Ethiopia has yet to reach its expected peak of COVID-19 infections, but the pandemic has accelerated in the country. As of the first week in June, the World Health Organization stated that there have been over 2,000 confirmed cases of the virus in the country. Factories are on high alert with regard to efforts to prevent, contain, and address fallout from the spread of the disease. As yet, no clusters of cases have been reported in major industrial zones in the country.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 14 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: Clean Clothes Campaign

Schlagwörter: ACCORD, Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitssicherheit, Bekleidungsindustrie, Firmenprofile, Gesundheit, Lieferkette, Lohn, Marken, Rana Plaza, Sicherheitsbedingungen, Sozialstandards, Transparenz, Umweltaspekte, Zukunft

Kurzbeschreibung:

In this report from April 2021, the Accord witness signatories enumerate uncorrected safety hazards at factories producing for 12 leading brands covered by the Accord. The data show that every brand is sourcing from dozens of factories that have failed to install fire alarms, sprinkler systems, and/or adequate emergency exits. Therefore it is paramount that these brands sign a new legally binding agreement to safeguard the effectiveness of the Accord and ensure these hazards are remediated.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 16 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: Mela wear

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Schüler_innen Sek. I/II, Berufsschule, Erwachsene

Medien: Podcast

Schlagwörter:  Arbeitsbedingungen, Armut, Bekleidungsindustrie, COVID-19, Corona, Gesundheit, Indien, Lieferketten, Löhne, Produktion, Unternehmensverantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung: 

Interview with Parvathi Madappa and Lea Kress

How is the situation of Indian textile workers one year after the start of the pandemic and the 

lockdown in India? How are they affected by the Indian Labour Law Reforms which provoked a massive wave of protests? Parvathi Madappa works for the Indian labour rights organization CIVIDEP and Lea Kress for the German NGO FEMNET. In collaboration with partners in the Global North, CIVIDEP seeks to hold brands accountable for rights violations in their supply chains. For example, CIVIDEP cooperates with the civil society members of the “Textilbündnis” to improve the situation of textile workers. Due to the Corona crisis millions of workers lost their livelihood, that is why CIVIDEP started distributing relief aid and German partners have set up emergency funds.

The podcast is available on different podcast platforms and on the website of mela wear.

Erscheinungsjahr: seit 2021

Umfang: ca. 45 Min

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: SOMO – Centre for Reseacrh on multinational corporations

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen 

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, COVID-19, Corona, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Gesundheit, Lieferketten, Länderbericht, Leder, Löhne, Myanmar, Überstunden

Kurzbeschreibung:

In this article, data are presented on key labour issues in two garment factories, Leader One and Dong Yi. From intensive interviews with 39 workers, a grim picture of the pre-Corona crisis situation arises. Things cannot go back to the way they were. Let the Corona crisis be a turning point to finally improve the lives of workers in the garment supply chain, starting with these two factories in Myanmar.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Sprache: Englisch

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 Herausgeber_in: Together for Decent Leather, Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF)

Autor_innen: Cornelia Staritz, Lindsay Whitfield

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Armut, Bangladesch, COVID-19, Corona, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Gesundheit, Lieferketten, Länderbericht, Leder, Löhne

Kurzbeschreibung:

Like other sectors, the coronavirus pandemic has also upset the leather production, production process, productivity and its supply chains in all respect. The country's leather exporters are going to be hit hard for the coronavirus outbreak in China, which is their largest export destination (about 60%) of leather from Bangladesh. According to the stakeholders, Bangladesh tanneries and leather sector as a whole facing a huge financial loss amounting over USD300 million and the figure is increasing daily basis. There are around 300 containers of leather and leather goods that are packed up on the factory premises for shipment. Most of the previous export orders are being cancelled by the foreign buyers as the countries from where the order came has also been hit hard.

Under the circumstance of the above since the situation has been changing continuously, Bangladesh Labour Foundation has been taken the initiative to conduct series of situation coverage where this one is the first part of our research which covered immediate impact on the industry due to COVID-19. As a labour support organization, our major focus was to find out the current conditions of the workers where definitely we have gone through the industry update as a whole.  

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 7 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Herausgeber_in: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Center for Development and Employment Research

Redaktion: Rizwanul Islam, Rushidan I Rahman

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsrechte, Bangladesh, Bekleidungsindustrie, COVID-19, Corona, Gender, Gesundheit, Frauen in der Bekleidungsindustrie, Krise, Menschenrechte, Politik, Standards, Studie, textile Kette, Untersuchung

Kurzbeschreibung:

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned to an global economic crisis which affected the employment and labour market situations worldwide – as well in Bangladesh. The lockdown measures from March to May 2020 hit the economy hard and economic recovery is taking time. There are already visible signs of the impact of the economic crisis on employment and livelihoods of people.

The study analyses the impact of the health and economic crisis on the employment and labour market situations of Bangladesh and provides recommendations on possible policy responses for the short and medium turn future. It deals with the employment as a whole but also focus on how the informal sector and women have been affected.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 48 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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