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Unter dem Motto „FairSchnitt - Studieren für eine sozial gerechte Modeindustrie“ entwickelt FEMNET seit 2012 Formate, Netzwerke und Strukturen, um an Hochschulen Themen wie Unternehmensverantwortung, Sozial- und Umweltstandards oder Arbeits- und Menschenrechte am Beispiel der Bekleidungsindustrie zu diskutieren. Dabei gilt es das Bewusstsein der Studierenden für die globalen Zusammenhänge der Textilindustrie zu schärfen, das Hintergrundwissen über soziale Standards und Arbeitsbedingungen in der Modeproduktion zu vergrößern und ihre Verantwortung für die gesamte Branche zu betonen.

Mit dem vorliegenden Toolkit stehen die entwickelten Inhalte auch öffentlich zur Verfügung und können so über unsere Zielstudiengänge hinaus genutzt und eingesetzt werden. Denn wer sich bereits als junger Mensch mit den sozialen und ökologischen Auswirkungen der Textilindustrie beschäftigt hat, wird diese bei späteren Entscheidungen berücksichtigen.

Jedes Modul besteht aus einer Dozent_innenanleitung, einer Präsentation sowie Materialien für Gruppenarbeiten, die Sie nutzen, anpassen und verbreiten dürfen. Eine Literaturliste nennt Hintergrundinformationen und weiterführende Quellen.

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The Organic Cotton Market Report (OCMR) is a unique analysis of organic cotton focusing on the industry’s supply side, analyzing production volumes, availability and emerging fiber trends. It includes data and figures on different countries, trade volumes and developments in the cotton market.

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Der jährlich erscheinende Bericht gibt einen Überblick über Entwicklungen der Märkte für

• Bio-Baumwolle und „nachhaltig produzierte“ Baumwolle
• Recyceltes Polyester
• Synthetische Fasern auf Grundlage nachwachsender Rohstoffe
• zertifizierte Daunen
• zertifizierte Wolle

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The role of the global apparel and footwear industries has shifted far beyond meeting a basic human need. The relationship with fashion in our modern lives has had a collateral and significant impact on our planet’s resources.

As we face urgent environmental and social challenges caused by climate change and resource depletion, the efficacy of solutions will depend on the creativity, innovation and boldness so characteristic of the fashion industry. It’s time for players to change the trajectory. This report encourages actors in the industry to set ambitious, evidence-based environmental impact reduction goals to drive meaningful change to secure a more sustainable future for fashion.

With a view to drive bold Climate Action from the apparel and footwear industries, Quantis carried out a comprehensive study of the environmental impacts across both industries’ value chains. The

core objective is to inform on the current state of these industries’ environmental performance and provide robust data to inform and empower them to use a science-based approach to reduce their impact (for example, by aligning with the Science Based Targets initiative or other leading initiatives). A special focus is put on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as water impact.

Stemming from this overarching ambition, the goals of the present study were defined as follows:

• Quantify the apparel industry’s global environmental impacts across various indicators
• Assess data gaps to be addressed in further studies
• Study both historic and future data points to highlight trends and compare corresponding impact growth rates
• Provide key data-driven takeaways that can be used to promote industry-wide environmental progress of the apparel and footwear industries

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The Government of Uzbekistan operates a system of forced labour which has been estimated to coerce approximately one million people annually into participating in the cotton harvest. Following courageous reporting, activism, and whistleblowing, the Uzbek government has committed at the highest levels to eradicating forced and child labour from the cotton sector. One of the two crucial annual reports that both measures incidences of forced and child labour in the cotton sector, and attempts to diagnose strengths and weaknesses in Uzbekistan’s reform effort is produced by the International Labour Organization (ILO) through its third-party monitoring unit stationed in Tashkent. Established through a Multi-Donor Trust Fund by the World Bank, with support from the European Union, the United States and Switzerland, the unit has produced three annual monitoring reports since 2015. Following serious criticism of the third-party monitoring methodology, ethicality and accuracy by civil society, the first author of this evaluation was invited by the ILO’s Chief Technical Adviser to review the 2017 cotton harvest report. To conduct the review, benchmarks drawn from the international methodological literature and the ILO’s own monitoring manual were employed. Once applied serious breaches were identified. A series of questions prompted by the review’s initial findings was sent to the ILO’s third-party monitoring unit for clarification. No response has been received. 

Among the greatest concerns raised during the review was a lack of explicit reference in the 2017 harvest report to the vulnerability of participants who may be victims of state-organised labour, the special sensitivities this prompts for research, or the complexities associated with conducting accurate fieldwork in a deeply authoritarian country where surveillance, arbitrary detention, torture, and repression are lived realities for citizens. 

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