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Business And Human Rights Resource Centre: Covid19 Action Tracker 
(This allows for comparison across clothing brands on purchasing practices and responses to the pandemic)

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ARTICLES
Boohoo + Slave Labour
Boohoo: fashion giant faces ‘slavery’ investigation (The Sunday Times)

Pressure on Boohoo over slave wages and lockdown allegations (The Times)

Leicester's coronavirus lockdown is no surprise to its garment factory workers (Guardian)

Dark factories: labour exploitation in Britain’s garment industry (The Financial Times)

Report: Boohoo & COVID-19: The people behind the profit (Labour Behind The Label)

Undercover: Britain's Cheap Clothes (Channel 4 Dispatches)
Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability (UK Parliament)

Chair demands answers from Boohoo on trade union recognition (Parliament UK)

Boohoo to investigate Leicester supplier over exploitation claims (BBC)
Boohoo’s statement

Boohoo shares plunge again as vow to probe supply chain falls flat (ES)

Boohoo comes out fighting after market tears it to shreds (FT)

Multiple Boohoo inspections find no modern slavery offences (FT)

The World Tonight (BBC Radio 4) Influencer Vas J Morgan on Boohoo

As Boohoo faces ‘slavery’ claims, who else needs to pay the price for our fast fashion fix? (Lauren Bravo for Metro)

Garment Workers and PayUp

European Retailers Scrap $1.5 Billion of Bangladesh Orders

Garment workers are facing a humanitarian crisis – but don’t blame COVID-19

Surviving on a bag of rice: plight of Bangladeshi garment makers

Zara and Primark factory workers say they were fired after forming union

Fast fashion: Pakistan garment workers fight for rights amid Covid-19 crisis

“Fashion” is just an excuse for the rich to exploit the poor

Cambodia garment factories call for wage cuts as pandemic bites

The Global Impact of Delayed Payments and Factory Closures for Garment Makers

Jailed for a Facebook post: garment workers' rights at risk during Covid-19

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Kylie Jenner and Philip Green

Email template to fashion brands (created by @zainab.slow.fashion and @OhSoEthical)

To whom it may concern,

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, I would like to know what you are doing to ensure the garment workers making your clothes are protected from Coronavirus, and what is being done to ensure workers who are unable to work, or are laid off, are given enough support to survive. In particular, I would like to know whether you are following the steps suggested by civil society organisations, who suggest the following:

– Ensure that their supplier factories follow government requirements or recommendations regarding the suspension of large gatherings and close factories as necessary for the appropriate duration to protect the health of workers and their communities, while maintaining all workers’ contracts and payment of their full regular wages;

-Ensure that workers who are sent home because of a lack of work are compensated at their full regular wage;

-Ensure that workers who contract the virus, or suspect they have the virus, can take sick leave without negative repercussions and are compensated at their full regular wage during the period of recovery and self-isolation;

-Ensure that, when factories reopen, deadlines for orders are reassessed to prevent workers from working mandatory overtime to make up for delays; and

-Ensure that measures to fight the virus do not unduly restrict workers’ freedom of movement or their freedom to organize.

The full statement can be found at: https://laborrights.org/releases/brands-must-urgently-take-steps-minimize-impact-coronavirus-garment-workers’-health-and

Kind regards,

[name and address]