Wear Your Ideas – WFTO-Europe Event

The textile industry has been under fire for egregious violations of human and labour rights worldwide.

The event organized by the World Fair Trade Organization-Europe (WFTO-E) on 14 October in Brussels, aims to let the public know who and what is behind our clothing through dialogue with the protagonists who struggle every day to get a fairer supply chain.

Wear your ideas

World Fair Trade Organization Europe (WFTO) main partners for this project will be:

Oxfam-Magasins du Monde – non-profit organization promoting Fair Trade

Fashion Revolution – a global coalition of designers, academics, writers, business leaders and parliamentarians calling for systemic reform of the fashion supply chain

Fair Trade Advocacy Office

Clean Clothes Campaign – dedicated to improving working conditions and supporting the empowerment of workers in the global garment and sportswear industries through lobbying and awareness-raising

• a representative of the City of Ghent

• a representative of the Cambodian Trade Union, an artisan from Sasha

This event is part of the Belgian Fair Trade Week, an initiative of the Belgian Development Agency. Topics covered this year will be transparency, poverty, living wages, and problems faced by trade unionists.

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