Textile workers are working inside a garment factory in Savar. Bangladesh. Oxfam’s What She Makes campaign demands big clothing brands pay the women who make our clothes a living wage.
Companies cannot be left off the hook for the damage they cause to people and the planet.
Precarious working conditions, low wages, and human rights abuses, including slavery, are rife in supply chains. Women are disproportionately affected as they are overwhelmingly concentrated in the least secure and lowest paid positions in supply chains, and routinely denied to use their voice.
In 2024, the EU adopted new rules to make large companies police their global value chains for environmental harm and human rights violations. These rules must now be written into national law by European countries and implemented without delay. EU decision-makers must resist calls to backtrack on laws promoting corporate transparency and responsible business in the name of 'cutting red tape'.
Read Oxfam's reports and press work on business and human rights.
Read Oxfam and allies guide explaining the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and how it should be transposed and implemented.
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