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More than 1,000 euros: Clean Clothes Campaign calculates living wage for Eastern Europe

Every fourth garment sold in a major European market like Germany comes from a textile factory in Eastern or Southeastern Europe. But there, the seamstresses who make clothes for the big fashion brands only get poverty wages - sometimes less than their colleagues in the Far East. Together with local textile workers, the Clean Clothes Campaign...

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Study: "Exploitation Made in Europe": human rights violations plague apparel production

Five days ago was the seventh anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. More than 1,100 garment workers lost their lives and thousands were injured. The event highlighted the inhuman working conditions: locked in, intimidated and grossly underpaid. Tragic, we think, but far away. New research by the Clean Clothes...

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Low, low wages – the dirty secret of “Made in Europe”

In its most recent report “Stitched Up – Poverty wages for garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey", the Clean Clothes Campaign busted yet another fashion myth, namely that “Made in Europe” means fair wages and that paying more for clothes or sourcing from Europeautomatically guarantees decent working conditions. Nothing could be further...