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Dutch Clean Clothes Campaign and India Committee of the Netherlands file OECD Guidelines complaint against clothing retailer G-Star.

Eyewitness accounts of working conditions in Chinese garment factories.

Jenny Chan

With the conferring of the “Public Eye Awards” in 2006, the tradition continues. Once again the Berne Declaration and Pro Natura - Friends of the Earth Switzerland effectively reminded corporate bosses at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos of their social and ecological responsibilities.

Companies invited to join September start-up of relief scheme for victims of collapsed factory, Bangladesh.

With the FIFA World Cup 2006 taking place in Germany, the CCC took the lead in organizing a number of actions.

International Actions Mark One-Year Anniversary of Spectrum Tragedy Sweeping changes still needed to stop ongoing deaths, injuries of garment workers

April 11: International Action Day for Workers Health & Safety in Bangladesh

Three tragedies hit Bangladesh factories in one week, leaving scores dead, wounded

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Pakistan:Urgent Solidarity Needed

Oct 2005 - This message calls for solidarity from all the organizations all over the world, asking them to contribute to the "APTUF Earthquake Relief Fund" it has set up to help provide victims with medicines, tents, blankets, food, drinking water and clothes.
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Sept 2005 - Workers in six countries filed a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday, claiming the world's largest retailer overlooks sweatshop conditions at toy and clothing factories from China to Nicaragua.

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Max Havelaar textile-products in the supermarket
June 2005 - The Swiss fair trade labelling foundation Max Havelaar expands its products and enters the garment sector.

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• Oct 2004, The Public Eye on Davos Awards
  Every year in January, the World Economic Forum (WEF) gathers together its business leaders and the political and world media elite to discuss current global political issues and set trends in the future development of global business. The international NGO coalition "The Public Eye on Davos" has been present at the same time as the WEF in Davos/Switzerland since 2000, to critically monitor and to challenge their activities at an alternative event.
  Next January, the Berne Declaration and Pro Natura - Friends of the Earth Switzerland together with other NGOs will be hosting another"Public Eye" event. The highlight will be the award ceremony, which will be held on the evening of 25 January 2005 in Davos. Candidates for the awards are companies who have excelled in socially and environmentally irresponsible behaviour. We are inviting you to nominate potential award winners.
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  Jan 2004, Dignity Return - a 'sweat-free' garment operation in Thailand
  'Dignity Return' is a clothing label still on the fringe of Thailand's sprawling world of garment factories, where globally known brands like Nike and Levis dominate. But it represents hope - and more - for the Thais churning out T-shirts and headbands bearing the stamp of this new label.

• Dec 2003, Action Alert: Send a Lump of Coal to the "Sweatshop Retailer of the Year"

• Dec 2003, International CCC workers’ tour
  From December 4th till 14th, the Clean Clothes Campaign organised a speaker tour with guests from Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

• Labour conflicts in the world factories of the garment industry and International Solidarity Campaigns. An evaluation of the Clean Clothes Campaign's Urgent Appeals. By Barbara Rimml 2003

• Nov 2003, Thai government asked to ensure workers' rights
  The Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), which represents 158 million workers in 231 affiliated organisations in 150 countries, is urging the Thai government to comply with international labour standards.

• Oct 2003, Seminar on organising garment workers at the World Social Forum in India

• Oct 2003, Clean Clothes Campaign calls on Mr. Price to take working conditions seriously.

• Sept 2003, German CCC action at Tom Tailor store in Hamburg, September 26th. CCC activists continue to demand that Tom Tailor's Indonesian supplier PT Kahatex reinstate workers illegally fired in May.

• Aug 2003, Swiss companies stopped their imports from Burma

• June 2003, Labour activist Tian released. Good news!! On wednesday afternoon labour activist Tian Chua (who is also vice-president of Keadilan) was released from prison after serving two years (without trial) under the Malaysian Internal Security Act (ISA).

• May 2003, Exposing exploitation of female textile workers included in the state's "job training and retraining programm" in Macedonia

• April 2003, Urgent Appeal: Release Political Prisoners Under ISA in Malaysia!

• Jan 2003, Davos conference participants condemn rights violations

• Jan 2003, Workshop on Conceptual orientation to Clean Clothes Campaign- Tamil Nadu, India

• Dec 2002, St. Nicolas visited FIFA headquarters in Zurich - FIFA President Blatter received a petition from Swiss Clean Clothes Campaign

• Okt 2002, CCC Gucci Action in Amsterdam

• Oct 2002, Demonstration for fair wage & fair Trade, Bangladesh

• Oct 2002, Censorship in spain
  Please find below a call for urgent action we from the Spanish CCC, who are fighting censorship of Spanish television about a film on working conditions in sweatshops producing for Spanish brands in Morocco.

• Sept 2002, Internationally binding legislation and litigation for the enforcement of labour rights
  Report of the seminar organised by the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) International Legal Working Group and International Restructuring Education Network Europe (IRENE)

• Aug 2002, Demonstration in Amsterdam against corporate influence on the World summit in Johannesburg.

• June 2002: Garment Workers Are Also Victims of September 11

• June 2002, Report from the German CCC

• May 2002, Press release, FIFA Tolerates Massive Violations of Labour Rights - Statement by the Clean Clothes Campaign and the Global March Against Child Labour

• Feb 2002, Sign on to letter to IOC regarding Burma

• Jan 2002, Press release, Report - Garment companies fail to move on living wage issue

• Jan 2002, Press release, A triumph for human rights!!

• Dec 2001, Reaction from the Clean Clothes Campaign to the European Commission Green Paper "Promoting a European framework for Corporate Social Responsibility"

• Oct 2001, Bulgarian workshop on Clean Clothes
  Social environment and standards at the workplace in the garment industry

• Oct 2001, Unraveling the MultiFibre Agreement (MFA)
  What impact will the abolition of quotas under the MFA have on the garment industry of Sri Lanka?

• Sep 2001, press release
  SETEM, as the coordinator of the Clean Clothes Campaign in Spain, buys shares in INDITEX in order to guarantee socially responsible policies.

• Aug 2001, An international campaign is launched against global sweatshops and for workers rights.

• Aug 2001, Brutal Murder of Bangladesh Trade Union Activist

• Jan 2001, US customs stops goods produced in Mongolia

• Jan 2001, Strike at PT Citra Abadi Sejati

• Dec 2000, No Freedom of Association for Bangladesh's Export Processing Zones Workers

• Dec 2000, Action concerning factory fire Bangladesh

• Nov 2000, "Taiwan" shoes' makers: Thai Workers This paper was produced for Press for change.

• Nov 2000, 45 dead in Bangladesh garment factory

• Nov 2000, Press release Indonesian testimony on labour conditions in adidas factories at European Parliament Hearing.

• Nov 2000, Statement of the European Clean Clothes Campaigns regarding the EU-Howitt Resolution

• Oct 2000, ILO on Labour Practices in the Footwear, Leather, Textiles and Clothing Industries

• Sept 2000, Press release from the German CCC Adidas drops supplier FORMOSA in El Salvador Threat to jobs of needle workers

• Sept 2000, Global labour report denounces repression (ICFTU)

• Aug 2000, Human Rights and the Transnational Garment Industry in South and South-East Asia: A Focus on Labour Rights - by J. G. Frynas

• June 2000, U.S. Retailers Increase Use of Sweatshops in Burma, as imports soar

• June 2000, Clean Clothes Campaigns set score at Euro 2000