Publications

In addition to the publications listed below, you will find further publications on social and ecological risks in the textile and clothing sector, including German-language publications, on the websites of BILS, ESDO, FEMNET, HEJSupport, INKOTA and SÜDWIND.

Incidents Reports

Annual analysis will be published here - starting 2025.

Further Information on this Project

For further information regarding Worker- and Community-based Monitoring, the project as a whole as well as this incidents-database, please download the following documents:

Project Overview

Worker- and Community-Based Monitoring

English version (PDF)
German version (PDF)

Portrait of the Incidents List Website

Textile-Incidents.info – A Tool to identify and to remedy Hazards and Human Rights Abuses (PDF)

Textile Insight News Update

Information on Methodology and Studies

The social life of industrial disputes: Exploring workerscentred industrial relations in India’s garment labour regimes

by International Labour Organization
Authors: Alessandra Mezzadri, Rakhi Sehgal
2023, 72 pages
1.2 MB (PDF-file)

Worker Voice: What it is, what it is not, and why it matters

by Center for Global Workers’ Rights - The Pennsylvania State University
Authors: Mark Anner and Matthew Fischer-Daly
2023, 154 pages
4.2 MB (PDF-file)

A Multi-Actor Partnership on gender-sensitiv Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) - The business case

by SÜDWIND
Author: Alina Matt
2023, 6 pages
0.9 MB (PDF-file)

What is a gendertransformative OSH approach?

by SÜDWIND
Authors: Jiska Gojowczyk and Jannika Matthias
2023, 18 pages
0.9 MB (PDF-file)

How to move closer towards sustainable Leather Value Chains.
Defining sustainability in the leather sector

by CIVIDEP and SÜDWIND
Authors: Jiska Gojowczyk and Pradeepan Ravi
2022, 10 pages
0.8 MB (PDF-file)

Human rights due diligence in practice.
How are companies working to uphold human rights in the global supply chain of leather (goods) and footwear?

by INKOTA network and SÜDWIND
Authors: Lena Janda, Gertrude Klaffenböck, Berndt Hinzmann
2022, 34 pages
0.5 MB (PDF-file)

What does effective human rights due diligence look like for SMEs?
5 insights from practice

by the UN Global Compact Network Germany.
2022, 14 pages
0.8 MB (PDF-file)

SUPPLY CHAIN GOVERNANCE -
Arguments for worker-driven enforcement

by FRIEDRICH-EBERT-STIFTUNG
Author: Marlese von Broembsen
2022, 15 pages
0.2 MB (PDF-file)

TOOLS FOR COMMUNITYENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH
MONITORING - A Manual for Pollution Impacted Communities

by the Community Environmental Monitoring (CEM)
2021, 120 pages
3 MB (PDF-file)

Stakeholder Inclusion as Accelerator for the Sustainable Development Goals

by the UN Global Compact Network Netherlands.
2020, 31 pages
3 MB (PDF-file)

Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

by UN Human Rights Office of the High Commisioner
2011, 42 pages
1.1 MB (PDF-file)

Information on Sector Risks and Related Topics

Barriers to Representation: Freedom of Association in Cambodia

by CENTRAL, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Authors: Mirabelle Yang and Brandais York
2024, 32 pages
67 MB (PDF-file)

Chain of consequences - How Chinese workers pay for supply chain de-risking

by SOMO and China Labour Bulletin
Author Joshua Rosenzweig
2024, 30 pages
1.9 MB (PDF-file)

Persistent Threat: PFAS in Textiles and Water in Bangladesh

by ESDO and IPEN
Authors: Dr. Shahriar Hossain, Mgr. Jitka Strakova, Siddika Sultana, Shanon Iffat Alam,Tanjima Haque Trisha, Golam Rabbani, Dr. Sara Brosche, Riley Howard, DSc, MPH,Dr. Joseph DiGangi
2024, 56 pages
2.4 MB (PDF-file)

TIME FOR CHANGE - Forced Labor in Turkmenistan Cotton

by Turkmen News
2023, 62 pages
4.4 MB (PDF-file)

Hides & hardship - Caste-based discrimination in the leather industry in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan

by Arisa and Together for Decent Leather
2023, 26 pages
1.3 MB (PDF-file)

No Contracts, no Rights: How the Fashion Industry Avoids Paying Minimum Wages in Pakistan

by FEMNET, ECCHR, NTUF
Authors: Sina Marx, Miriam Saage-Maaß, Annabell Brüggemann, Chloé Bailey
2023, 18 pages
13 MB (PDF-file)

Mind the Gap - A study on garment workers in Bangaldesh

by Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies- BILS
Authors: MD. Manirul Islam, Shajib Dey
2023, 55 pages
1.3 MB (PDF-file)

Threadbare: Working conditions at South Indian Leather-based Workplaces

by CIVIDEP India and Together for decent Leather
Authors: Sreyan Chatterjee and Pradeepan Ravi
2023, 58 pages
2.6 MB (PDF-file)

Unsafe and Underpaid: Working Conditions in South Asia’s Leather, Leatherwear, and Footwear Factories
Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India

by INKOTA netzwerk
Author: Axel Schröder
2022, 6 pages
400 KB (PDF-file)

Leather from Bangladesh: Indecent work and hidden supply chains

by SOMO and Together for Decent Leather
Author: Martje Theuws
2022, 25 pages
1.4 MB (PDF-file)

Employment and working conditions in Bangladesh’s leather industry. Evidence from a survey of tannery workers

by BLF, RAPID and Together for Decent Leather
Authors: Dr. M. Abu Eusuf, Dr. Md. Abdul Khaleque and Ebney Ayaj Rana
2022, 25 pages
1.4 MB (PDF-file)

Employment and working conditions in the leather industry in Pakistan -
Evidence from a survey among workers in tanneries and allied leather industries in Karachi

by the National Organization for Working Communities (NOW Communities)
Author: Farhat Parveen
2022, 48 pages
2.7 MB (PDF-file)

“Until nothing is left” - China’s Settler Corporation and its Human Rights Violations in the Uyghur Region.
A report on the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps

by Sheffield Hallam University Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice
Authors: Laura T. Murphy, Nyrola Elimä, and David Tobin
2022, 94 pages
5.8 MB (PDF-file)

Interesting Websites

Screenshot of the website

Mandatory Due Diligence

by Business and Human Rights Resource Center