For more than 100 years the industry that puts clothes on our backs...has been exploiting its mostly female workforce...[W]ith improvements in technology and a deeper understanding of what drives change in supply chains, we are finally able to make progress in improving working conditions in the global garment industry. 

DISCLOSING WORKING CONDITIONS

In 2014, when I headed up the ILO’s Better Factories Cambodia project...we began to publicly post the performance of nearly 500 factories on 21 core labor rights measures...we witnessed dramatic increases in factory compliance...

IMPROVING PURCHASING PRACTICES

It has been widely acknowledged...that the purchasing practices of brands and retailers can cause factories to violate laws or codes of conduct...Enter BetterBuying.org, an online rating system set to launch publicly in 2017 that will allow factories to anonymously rate the purchasing practices of their buyers...