Ecotextile News

Human Rights Watch calls for Xinjiang boycott

Wed, 21 April 2021

NEW YORK - The Human Rights Watch NGO is calling on brands and retailers to boycott products - such as cotton - from the Xinjiang region of China over concerns about the use of forced labour. Human Rights Watch is also calling on the United Nations (UN) to launch an ...

Human Rights Watch calls for Xinjiang boycott

Bestseller suspends sourcing from Myanmar

Wed, 21 April 2021

BRANDE – Danish company Bestseller has become the latest in the fashion industry to put a halt on placing orders with its suppliers in Myanmar following the military coup. Bestseller joins brands and retailers such as H&M, Primark and Benneton which halted new orders ...

Bestseller suspends sourcing from Myanmar

Certification insulates cotton against market shocks

Wed, 21 April 2021

GENEVA – A new policy brief released by a major global think tank claims that compliance with voluntary sustainability standards can help smallholder cotton farmers to be more resilient to global shocks – such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, its survey of ...

Certification insulates cotton against market shocks

BACK ISSUE ARCHIVE

- Teijin teams up to develop recycling technologies
  
  Wednesday, 21 April 2021
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- Vans steps up with sustainability targets
  
  Wednesday, 21 April 2021
  CALIFORNIA – US footwear brand Vans has outlined several new sustainability targets...
  
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- Mills Fabrica set to expand to London
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- J.Crew announces sustainability targets
  
  Tuesday, 20 April 2021
  NEW YORK - US fashion retailer J.Crew has announced a new initiative aimed at...
  
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- US brand Revolve outlines sustainability...
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  Thursday, 01 April 2021
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- Infinited Fiber to build €220M factory in Finland
  
  Tuesday, 20 April 2021
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- Teijin backs call for ambitious emission...
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- Garment industry badly hit by Myanmar coup
  
  Tuesday, 20 April 2021
  YANGON - Around 200,000 garment workers in Myanmar have lost their jobs since the...
  
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- REI sets out new partner requirements
- Leicester factory probe findings reveale...

- African cotton bodies team up to support farmers
  
  Tuesday, 20 April 2021
  HAMBURG – The Cotton Made in Africa (CMiA) initiative and the African Cotton...
  
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- China looks to Central Asia for more cot...
- Fashion detox changes consumer outlook

Features
- Are the robots coming for garment workers?
  
  Monday, 12 April 2021
  As far back as the early 19th century, the Luddites took to breaking the factory machinery that threatened to replace them in violent protests which ended only after mill and factory owners called in the British Army. Fast forward two centuries and it has been...
  
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- Death knell sounded for Chinese cotton?
- COVID 19: one year on