Somebody Knows: How to bring traceability to your cotton supply chain

New petitionFollowing the recent release of EJF’s ‘Still in the Fields’ report, a new guide, ‘Somebody Knows’ explains how retailers can investigate their supply chain, tracing the production of their goods from raw materials to finished products, enabling them to eliminate cotton from environmentally or socially unacceptable practices – such as cotton from Uzbekistan.

‘Somebody Knows’ is a must-read for all retailers and brands keen to understand ‘why’ knowing where their cotton comes from is so important, and ‘how’ they can go about tracking and tracing this seemingly complex supply chain.

With a guide like this, there is now no reason to not be able to answer the question “where does your cotton come from?”

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Still In the Fields

Still in the Fields - a new report from The Environmental Justice Foundation
Still in the Fields - a new report from The Environmental Justice Foundation
New petitionStill in the Fields reveals the widespread use of state-sponsored forced child labour in the cotton fields of the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, the world’s 3rd largest cotton exporter and a major supplier to both European traders and ultimately, the EU marketplace.

The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is calling for companies, consumers and governments to help secure an end to this human rights abuse.

The report summarises EJF’s in-country investigations in October 2008 and reports from independent media and human rights defenders in Uzbekistan.

Its release coincides with the tenth anniversary of the landmark International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour.

Open the full press release PDF for 'Still In the Fields' here

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