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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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benefits
laws
reform
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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child
chain
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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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forced
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