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Views from our Asia Pacific Network: Inflation and Wages in Vietnam
As part of Impactt’s launch of our Asia Pacific Network we are issuing a series of viewpoints identifying the most pressing labour standards issues in our network countries. Our first viewpoint comes from Juliet Edington our associate in Vietnam and focuses on the impacts of high inflation on workers’ livelihoods.
This year the issue of wages [More…]
Obtainable But Disposable, Can Fashion Be Sustainable?
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion report 2008, has called attention once again to sustainability within the fashion industry. The report follows a wave of recent media attention on the industry including; Panorama’s ‘Primark on the rack’ (BBC1, 9pm, 23 June 2008) and the BBC reality TV programme Blood, Sweat and T-shirts.