Herausgeber_in: Human Rights Watch

Schlagwörter:  Kambodscha, Arbeitsbedingungen, Frauenrechte, Schwangerschaft, Diskriminierung, Kinderarbeit, Kinderrechte, sexuelle Belästigung, Vereinigungsfreiheit, Gewerkschaften, Arbeitsverträge, Transparenz, Rechenschaft, Unternehmensverantwortung, Zulieferer

Kurzbeschreibung:
This 140-page report documents lax government enforcement of labor laws and brand actions that hinder monitoring and compliance. In recent years, wage protests, instances of garment workers fainting, and burdensome union registration procedures have spotlighted the plight of workers in Cambodia’s garment factories.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2015

Umfang: 147 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download bei Human Rights Watch.

Herausgeber: SOMO

Autoren_innen: Pauline Overeem & Martje Theuws

Schlagwörter:  Kinderarbeit, Asien

Kurzbeschreibung:
This fact sheet is about child labour in the global textile and garment supply chain, particularly in Asia. Children are being put to work at all stages of the supply chain – from the production of cotton seed, cotton harvesting and yarn spinning mills to all the phases in the cut-make-trim stage. As well as working in fields, children are also working in large formal factories and in small informal factories, as well as in sub-contracted workshops and in their own homes. Young children are working in the high tech spinning mills, in the power loom industry, as well as weaving on hand looms.
In garment factories, children perform diverse and often arduous tasks such as dyeing, sewing buttons, cutting and trimming threads, folding, moving and packing garments. In small workshops and home sites, children are put to work on intricate tasks such as embroidering, sequinning and smocking (making pleats).  Children are also being put to work in sectors related to the textile and garment industry, including leather and shoes. Child workers are also found in the sporting goods sector too, performing manual tasks such as stitching soccer balls.  There are several countries that are particularly notorious for child labour in the textile and garment industry – including India, the Ukraine, China, Bangladesh, Egypt, Thailand and Pakistan.
Governments and companies bear equal responsibility for protecting the rights of workers, including children. This fact sheet offers a number of suggestions for buying companies – such as buying houses, brands and retailers – to help ban child labour from all phases of their supply chains, from the sourcing of raw materials to the stitching of final products, and to rehabilitate any child workers they might come across.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2014

Umfang: 10 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Medien:  Hintergrundinformationen

Bezug: Kostenfrei zum Download bei somo.nl

Herausgeber: SOMO Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen, ICN, India Committee oft he Netherlands

Schlagwörter: Sumangali, Kinderarbeit, Indien, Südindien

Kurzbeschreibung:
In May 2011, the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and the India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN) published the report ‘Captured by Cotton – Exploited Dalit girls produce garments in India for European and US markets’. The report uncovered troubling evidence thatproducts for big garment brands and retailers were being made by girls under exploitative working conditions in Tamil Nadu, South India.

Currently, SOMO and ICN are working on a follow-up report, which is scheduled for publication in mid-April 2012. New field research has been conducted, including interviews with nearly 200 women workers. The new report examines the current situation at the four garment manufacturers originally investigated for Captured by Cotton. SOMO and ICN look at what the industry promised to undertake to curb labour abuses following the first report, what has actually been achieved, and to what effect. In advance of the forthcoming report, this fact sheet highlights some of the preliminary findings and recommendations.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2012

Umfang: 2 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Medien:  Hintergrundinformationen

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download: http://somo.nl/publications-en/Publication_3778

Herausgeber: SOMO Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen, ICN, India Committee oft he Netherlands

Schlagwörter: Sumangali, Kinderarbeit, Indien, Südindien

Kurzbeschreibung:
This report highlights several labour rights violations faced by girls and young women employed under the Sumangali Scheme in the Tamil Nadu garment industry. The Sumangali Scheme equals bonded labour, on the basis of the fact that employers are unilaterally holding back part of the workers’ wages until three or more years of work have been completed. In addition, workers are severely restricted in their freedom of movement and privacy. Workers work in unsafe and unhealthy circumstances. Local and international NGOs have reported extensively on the Sumangali Scheme. Inevitably, brands and retailers sourcing from Tamil Nadu have Sumangali workers in their supply chain. ICN and SOMO denounce the Sumangali Scheme as outright unacceptable and are of the opinion that sourcing companies have a responsibility to ensure that workers’ rights are respected throughout their supply chain.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2011

Umfang: 40 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Medien:  Hintergrundinformationen

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download: http://somo.nl/publications-en/Publication_3673

Herausgeber: SOMO Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen, ICN, India Committee oft he Netherlands

Schlagwörter: Sumangali, Kinderarbeit, Indien, Südindien

Kurzbeschreibung:
Diese Studie beschäftigt sich mit den aktuellen Entwicklungen im Zusammenhang mit dem Sumangali-Schema und den Arbeitsbedingungen der Textilarbeiterinnen in der Region Tamil Nadu (Distrikt im Süden Indiens). „Sumangali“ heißt eigentlich „die glückliche Braut“, aber angesichts der ausbeuterischen Arbeitsverhältnisse, die Zwangsarbeit gleichkommen, könnte dieser Ausdruck kaum ironischer gewählt sein.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2012

Umfang: 7 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Medien:  Hintergrundinformtionen

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Herausgeber: ITV (britischer Nachrichtensender)

Schlagwörter:  Kinderarbeit, Gewalt, Misshandlung, mangelnde Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, Bangladesch

Kurzbeschreibung:
Zum ersten Mal gibt es direkte Aufnahmen von einem schlagenden Aufseher in einer Fabrik in Bangladesch. In einer Szene der Dokumentation des britischen Nachrichtensender ITV vom 06.02.2014 wird gezeigt, wie einer der Aufseher ein minderjähriges Mädchen ins Gesicht schlägt. Das junge Mädchen wird als „Nutte “ und „Tochter eines Schweins“ beschimpft. Die Dokumentation deckt weitere erschreckende Zustände auf: Notausgänge sind verschlossen, inakzeptable, überlange Arbeitszeiten, unregelmäßige Vergütung der Überstunden sowie überfüllte Produktionsräume.

Der Film wurde von zwei bangladeschischen Frauen undercover in den Fabriken gedreht. In der Textilfabrik „Olira Fashions“, die für die britische Marke „Lee Cooper Jeans“ produziert, schuften 40 Kinder im Alter von 11–15 Jahren bis zu 11 Stunden für 36,- Euro pro Woche (Daily Telegraph 06.02.14).

Erscheinungsjahr: 2014

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Medien:  Medien/Film

Umfang: 57 Sekunden

Bezug: Auszüge sind hier zu finden

Herausgeber:  International Crisis Group

Schlagwörter:  Kinderarbeit, Zwangsarbeit, Usbekistan, Menschenrechte

Kurzbeschreibung:

The cotton industry in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan contributes to political repression, economic stagnation, widespread poverty and environmental degradation.
Without structural reform in the industry, it will be extremely difficult to improve economic development, tackle poverty and social deprivation, and promote political liberalisation in the region. If those states, Western governments and international financial institutions (IFIs) do not do more to encourage a new approach to cotton, the pool of disaffected young men susceptible to extremist ideology will grow with potentially grave consequences for regional stability.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2005

Umfang: 56 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Bezug: PDF kostenfrei zum Download bei der Cottoncampaign.org

Herausgeber:  Environmental Justice Foundation and Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights, in collaboration with Anti-Slavery International, 2010

Schlagwörter:  Kinderarbeit, Zwangsarbeit, Usbekistan, Menschenrechte

Kurzbeschreibung:

Cotton production in the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan remains one of the most exploitative enterprises in the world. The Government of Uzbekistan routinely compels hundreds of thousands of children as labourers in the country’s annual cotton harvest. Some analysts suggest between 1 and 2million school-age children are forced to pick cotton.
Children as young as 6 years old – but mostly aged 11and up – can be dispatched to the cotton fields for two months each year, missing out on their education and jeopardizing their future prospects.
Cotton picking is arduous labour, with each child ascribed a daily cotton quota of several dozen kilos that they must fulfill. They may face threats or physical abuse if they fail to pick their quota.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2010

Umfang: 21 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Bezug: PDF zum Download bei der Cottoncampaign.org

Herausgeber:  Environmental Justice Foundation and Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights, 2010

Schlagwörter:  Kinderarbeit, Zwangsarbeit, Usbekistan, Menschenrechte

Kurzbeschreibung:

Cotton production in Uzbekistan is one of the most exploitative enterprises in the world.
Uzbekistan - the world’s 6th largest producer of cotton - is unique for the scale of the state-sponsored, forced mobilisation of schoolchildren during the annual cotton harvest. Child labour is not the result of poverty or family need. It is at the behest of and directly benefits one of the world’s most corrupt and repressive regimes, which makes an estimated US$1 billion [£622 million] from the annual sale of 1 million tonnes of cotton.
Two years after the Government signed two International Labour Organisation (ILO) (Conventions in an attempt to curtail international criticism) the 2010 cotton harvest was again marked by state-sponsored, child and adult forced labour.
Over the past 3 years, a number of major international retailers and clothing brands including Tesco, Walmart-Asda, Marks and Spencer, Gap, Levis and C & A have pledged to avoid the use of Uzbek cotton in their supply chains. Such laudable voluntary initiatives from the private sector have not been matched by action at a policy level in Europe, a major end-point for Uzbek cotton.
This event aims to promote long-term solutions to forced labour and environmental damage and support for  workable, durable and effective policy solutions.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2010

Umfang: 8 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Bezug: PDF zum Download bei der Environmental Justice Foundation

Herausgeber:  Centre d’Etudes en Géopolitique et Gouvernance, Grenoble Ecole De Management

Schlagwörter:  Kinderarbeit, Zwangsarbeit, Usbekistan, Menschenrechte

Kurzbeschreibung:

Uzbek children are made to work in the cotton fields through the systematic use of forced labour by the government of Uzbekistan. This phenomenon is different from the legacy of family farms, as practiced in Western Europe only a few decades ago. Uzbekistan has a high level of literacy and schooling; the agricultural sector was collectivised during the Soviet era, and then privatised after independence in 1991, though these hollow reforms did not diminish state control over this sector. It is upon the orders of the state, through the intermediary of local government and governors (hokims), that the transportation of schoolchildren to the cotton fields and their supervision and quotas are organised. Moreover, after 20 years of independence, Uzbekistan’s economy has passed the subsistence stage and although we can observe a deep economic crisis, it does not justify the use of forced labour.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2012

Umfang: 36 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Bezug: PDF zum Download bei der Cottoncampaign.org