![]() ![]() Increased transparency enables workers’ rights and environmental advocates to identify, report and redress suspected abuses and helps brands and retailers to better track and manage social, environmental and governance risks that affect their business. ![]() Supply chains remain complex, fragmented, deregulated and opaque.Ī lack of visibility of supply chains allows exploitative, unsafe working conditions and environmental damage to thrive while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress these issues. The global fashion industry remains rife with human rights abuses and environmental degradation. It is impossible for companies to make sure human rights are respected, working conditions are safe and the environment is protected without knowing where their products are being made.īut nine years after Rana Plaza, there is still much to be done. When the Rana Plaza building collapsed nine years ago, killing and injuring thousands of garment workers, rescuers had to dig through the rubble looking for clothing labels in order to figure out which brands were producing clothes there. However, without transparency, achieving a sustainable, accountable, and fair fashion industry will be impossible.Ī lack of transparency costs lives. Transparency is not to be confused with sustainability. When brands publicly disclose information, it allows anyone to scrutinise their policies, hold them accountable for their claims and advocate for positive change. ![]() Transparency is a first step it is not radical, but it is necessary. Fashion Revolution believes that transparency is foundational to achieving systemic change in the global fashion industry, which is why we have been campaigning for it since 2014, and why we created this Index. This Index is a tool to push and incentivise the world’s largest fashion brands to be more transparent about their social and environmental efforts. This year, 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and retailers were reviewed and ranked according to what information they disclose about their social and environmental policies, practices and impacts, in their operations and supply chain. This is the seventh annual edition of the Fashion Transparency Index. ![]()
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