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Fashion retailers take action to tackle modern slavery

Leading UK fashion retailers, including John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, New Look, Next, River Island and Shop Direct, have all signed up to a joint agreement with enforcement bodies to help eradicate modern slavery from the UK textiles industry. The Apparel and General Merchandise Public and Private Protocol commits signatories to work together...

Business

C&A awarded Stop Slavery Award

Fashion retailer C&C has been awarded the Stop Slavery Award by the Thomson Reuters Foundation at the 5th annual edition of its Trust Conference in London. The award, which distinguishes companies which are taking concrete steps to eradicate bonded and forced labour from their supply chains, aims to highlight how businesses such as C&A can play...

Fashion

Zara fails to protect labourers from modern-day slavery practices

Despite Zara being one of best known and best selling fashion retailers in the Western hemisphere, the label has reportedly failed to protect its most vulnerable employees - the garment workers - from modern day slavery practises. According to the latest findings from Brazilian labour inspector, published by Repórter Brasil and the Centre for...