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‘Open Apparel Registry is a powerful new tool shining a light on the garment industry’
Phil Bloomer, (May 10, 2019)

Phil Bloomer and Alysha Khambay of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre explain how the open-source map of garment facilities across the globe is helping human rights campaigners to respond quickly to abuse in supply chains
‘Water-less’ manufacturing and new cotton irrigation techniques spell hope for brands
Angeli Mehta, (Nov 28, 2018)

Angeli Mehta reports on how Levi Strauss and the C&A Foundation are implementing innovative ways to reduce their water footprint
Unpicking the confusion over what constitutes ‘sustainable’ cotton
Angeli Mehta, (Jun 20, 2018)

From the Better Cotton Initiative to CottonConnect and organic, there are seven different schemes to cut the environmental and social impacts of the water-intensive textile. Forum for the Future's Cotton 2040 initiative aims to provide clear guidance for brands. Angeli Mehta reports
The female micro-entrepreneurs disrupting India's garment trade
Rebecca Ley, (Oct 23, 2017)

IKEA Group is helping to tackle poverty and empower women by sourcing from a network of 30,000 artisans
‘Four years after Rana Plaza, garment workers are still dying in unsafe factories’
Nadine Hawa, (Oct 20, 2017)

Fashion brands’ continuing failure to reveal their Bangladesh suppliers is impeding progress to prevent another tragedy, say human rights campaigners. But C&A Foundation aims to use crowdsourcing to digitally map the entire Bangladesh garment sector
Putting power in hands of garment workers
Maeve Galvin, (Apr 28, 2017)

Maeve Galvin of C&A Foundation argues that phone technology could transform conditions in the apparel supply chain if data is public and allows workers to have a voice

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