Tag: social sustainability
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Clean Clothes Campaign sues Levi’s over misleading advertisements
Together with a group of individual Levi’s consumers, the Netherlands-based foundation Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) has launched a court case against Levi’s on 14 April 2026 for its misleading advertisements towards Dutch consumers. While Levi’s jeans carried labels claiming that they were made “responsibly” and the brand has stated on its website that it has…
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The limits of textile production: Sustainable Growth or Controlled Scaling?
In the first article of our series, where we rethink the limits of production and consumption in the textile and fashion industry, we discuss controlled scaling. The first United Nations Climate Change Conference – Conference of the Parties (COP) was held in Berlin, Germany, in March 1995 and this November, for the first time, Türkiye…
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Open call to co-create the Just Transition Manifesto in fashion
While pressing issues such as the climate crisis and unfair living and working conditions necessitate a restructuring of current systems, it is vital to properly manage this process for a just transition and to take the necessary steps carefully and thoughtfully. If the fashion industry were a country, it would rank 4th in terms of…
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New Standard for global responsibility in textiles: GRTS
Global Standard announces the launch of the public consultation period for its new voluntary sustainability standard: the Global Responsible Textile Standard (GRTS). The non-profit organisation behind the internationally recognised Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), designed GRTS with core principles and same trusted process in GOTS. GRTS aims to extend the same principles of health, ecology,…
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What was changed in the industry after 12 years Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh?
Twelve years passed after the eight-storey building Rana Plaza came crashing down in Bangladesh, on April 24, 2013. At least 1138 people died, the large majority of them garment workers in one of the five factories that the building house and thousands more injured. Clean Clothes Campaign, the global network of over 200 organisations operating…