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In this article, data are presented on key labour issues in two garment factories, Leader One and Dong Yi. From intensive interviews with 39 workers, a grim picture of the pre-Corona crisis situation arises. Things cannot go back to the way they were. Let the Corona crisis be a turning point to finally improve the lives of workers in the garment supply chain, starting with these two factories in Myanmar.

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Like other sectors, the coronavirus pandemic has also upset the leather production, production process, productivity and its supply chains in all respect. The country's leather exporters are going to be hit hard for the coronavirus outbreak in China, which is their largest export destination (about 60%) of leather from Bangladesh. According to the stakeholders, Bangladesh tanneries and leather sector as a whole facing a huge financial loss amounting over USD300 million and the figure is increasing daily basis. There are around 300 containers of leather and leather goods that are packed up on the factory premises for shipment. Most of the previous export orders are being cancelled by the foreign buyers as the countries from where the order came has also been hit hard.

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This video shows the labour conditions in the leather industry in Pakistan.

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Supply chains are more like webs than linear chains, with layers of agents, contractors and subcontractors. This is a problem because fragmented and opaque supply chains can allow exploitative and unsafe working conditions to thrive while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress them.

This is why Fashion Revolution, among many other organisations, has been calling for greater transparency and accountability across the global fashion industry since the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh in 2013 killing more than a thousand garment workers. In support of the Tamil Nadu Alliance, Fashion Revolution has reviewed the supply chain transparency efforts of 62 major brands and retailers with reported links to textile suppliers in Tamil Nadu.

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Die Textilstudie des Bundesverbandes Sekundärrohstoffe und Entsorgung e.V. von 20151 hat Kennzahlen, Rahmenbedingungen und Trends herausgearbeitet vor dem Hintergrund des Inkrafttretens der Novellierung des Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetzes vom 01.06.2012. Dabei wurden exemplarisch Vergleiche zu den Ergebnissen der bvse-Studie von 20082 angestellt und ein Stimmungsbild von den veränderten Rahmenbedingungen als Konsequenz der Gesetzesnovellierung entwickelt. Anschließend an die Textilstudie von 2015 soll in der vorliegenden Studie eine neuerliche Betrachtung auf grundlegende Entwicklungen erfolgen. Dabei werden fortschreitende Phänomene betrachtet, quantifiziert und qualifiziert. Dies geschieht, bis auf wenige Ausnahmen, mit dem Wissensstand des abgeschlossenen Wirtschaftsjahres 2018. Zudem werden aktuelle Entwicklungen in die Analyse einbezogen. 

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