Payment of a living wage
09.03.2010
Margreet & Henrik in Turkey
Our new verification coordinator, Margreet Vrieling, is joining her colleague Henrik Lindholm in Turkey during a factory audit. We’ve asked her to send us her impressions of her very first FWF audit. Read more »
05.03.2010
Fairtrade meeting in Utrecht
Yesterday and today, FWF participated in the second multi-stakeholder forum of FLO, the Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International, in Utrecht. The goal of this meeting was to discuss FLO’s approach to textiles and more specifically how Fairtrade can contribute to improving labour conditions in the textile industry. Through a number of pilot projects, FLO will investigate different options with a range o…
03.03.2010
FEI conference in London
On 2 and 3 March, fashion students, teachers and organisations gathered in London for a conference organised by the FEI project. Fashioning an Ethical Industry is an EU-funded product by Labour Behind the Label, the British branch of Clean Clothes Campaign. During the conference, Sophie Koers from FWF took part in a panel and tried to answer the question 'How can ethical practices can be integrated into the design …