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Labour rights key to resuming EU-Thailand trade talks
2020-11-02 13:36:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
With a possible resumption of talks on the EU-Thailand free trade agreement on the cards, the European Union (EU) is being urged to require labour reform as a precondition to negotiations.
Better Cotton accused of "blindness" to forced labour
2020-10-29 12:46:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
An expert task force set up to review�the�Better Cotton Initiative's�Better Cotton Standard System (BCSS) has found�that decent work�receives less attention than environmental issues such as water and soil health - and that there is "organisational blindness" to forced labour.
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Bangladesh to reform labour laws to retain trade benefits
2020-10-28 13:25:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The government of Bangladesh has kickstarted a process to amend its labour law to enable it to continue to benefit from the�European Union's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) trade scheme.
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Supply chain impacts of Covid-19 pushed child labour, cargo theft
2020-10-21 12:00:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Covid-19 pandemic remains the top disruptor of supply chains, new data shows, with its impacts resulting in an increase in cargo theft, smuggling and child labour.
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UK forced labour probe reaches out to apparel retailers
2020-10-20 14:22:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Major apparel companies including H&M, Marks & Spencer, Adidas, Nike and Gap have been contacted by UK politicians to give evidence at an inquiry exploring�the forced labour of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China.
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