Primark
Quick scan of the linkages between the Ethiopian garment industry and the Dutch market
Garment industry in Myanmar far from fair
After years of sanctions, trade with Myanmar (formerly Burma) has started to flow. Low wages and favourable trade conditions are luring garment production from the region to this fragile democracy. Big and lesser known European…
The Myanmar Dilemma
Flawed Fabrics report has international impact
A report titled ‘Flawed Fabrics’ was published recently. Jointly authored by the SOMO and the India Committee of the Netherlands (LIW), it describes how the South Indian girls and young women who make the yarn…
Made by…whom?
Where are our clothes made? What route do they follow from cotton field to yarn to garment? Bargain-seekers have no way of knowing how things actually work in spinning mills and garment factories. But then…
Flawed Fabric – The abuse of girls and women workers in the South Indian textile industry
‘Flawed Fabrics’ – a new report by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and the India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN) – shows that workers are still facing appalling labour conditions that amount…