The Clean Clothes Campaign has issued a new position on the European Commission’s Omnibus Proposal, which “threatens” to undermine key safeguards contained in the recently adopted Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
These two directives represent hard-won victories that finally introduced obligations for corporations to respect human rights, labour rights and environmental protection along global supply chains. For the textile and footwear sector – where exploitation is systemic and widespread – these directives represented a glimmer of justice and accountability.
Now, the so called Commission’s Omnibus Proposal, under the pretext of simplification, “threatens” to reverse this progress, to which the Clean Clothes Campaign has responded.
They believe that by limiting the scope of in-depth analysis, weakening sanctioning mechanisms and excluding civil society from the monitoring process, this proposal undermines years of struggle done by workers, trade unions and human rights defenders.
The most vulnerable, namely women workers in the textile industry, workers in the informal sector and marginalized communities, will pay the highest price.
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) calls on Members of the European Parliament and EU Member States to reject this step backwards and to reaffirm their commitment to human dignity, transparency and corporate accountability.
Read the CCC’s full position on this proposal, in English and in a translated form, in PDF:
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