Sneaky Business // Oxfam Australia organizes virtual protest to support the...
Oxfam Australia has launched a new online campaign: Sneaky Business—a virtual march touring protesters across factories in Southeast Asia, China and Central America, all the way to the headquarters of...
View ArticleMass Faintings, Fixed-Duration Contracts and the ILO’s Better Factories...
You’ve likely followed the mass faintings of garment workers that have taken place in Cambodia this year. While most reports have cited gruelling working conditions and worker exposure to toxic...
View ArticleNext up…A Living Wage!
It’s no secret that the CSR industry cycles through trends of the ‘it’ topic. For a while the hottest topic was workers at Latin American maquiladores, then it was human rights in the sports...
View ArticleREAD // Let’s Clean Up Fashion 2011, Labour Behind the Label reports
Labour Behind the Label has released a new report, Let’s Clean up Fashion 2011: The state of pay behind the UK high street (LCUF). With respect to a living wage on the high street, this is the 5th...
View ArticleAnti-Slavery International targets European Parliament through Cotton Crimes...
Anti-Slavery International has recently relaunched their Cotton Crimes campaign with a new video. “It is our hope that, through our short video, we will reach out, inform and encourage people to act...
View ArticleEXHIBIT// Politics of Fashion | Fashion of Politics
Photo courtesy of Q blog. Click to read more on the interview with Jian Ghomeshi & for a preview of some of the items included in the exhibit. Canada’s QUEEN of fashion, Jeanne Beker, is guest...
View ArticleWATCH // Media Theorised: Reading against the grain
What role does advertising play in journalism? Who funds and controls media coverage? Why is representation so important? How are stereotypes produced and reproduced through the media? Does the...
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