Over the next two months we’re happy to be sharing with you a series of Garment Worker Diaries blogs guest-written by our partner in the field, SANEM. For just under five years now MFO and SANEM have been collaborating in Bangladesh. In many ways these blogs are a culmination of where we have been together, and at the same time a glimpse into the future of the RMG industry.
This 1st blog post introduces the European Union’s Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) regulations, and discusses the potential impacts of the regulations to the RMG sector in Bangladesh (a Bangla language version of the blog can also be accessed here). The 2nd blog post will delve deeper into how the RMG sector in Bangladesh can comply with the HREDD directives. Two further blogs will in turn discuss worker well-being and the sustainability of the RMG sector in Bangladesh.
Each of these blogs has been informed by years’ worth of direct conversations with garment workers. And as the well-being of workers’ minds, bodies, the environments they live in, and corporate accountability within international supply chains take the lead in due diligence conversations, we hope the value of these direct conversations with workers will only keep increasing.
As always, you can send any questions you have for MFO, SANEM, the workers or about the project to [email protected].
