Attend to rights abuses in supply chains: Japan Textile Federation

01 Aug '22

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The Japan Textile Federation recently announced guidelines encouraging companies to pay more attention to human rights abuses in supply chains. The guidelines include a checklist for company executives to ensure their supply chains are free of rights abuses like forced labour, child labour, harassment, long working hours and delays in wage payments.

It is important that textile companies make internal rules and human rights policies, the guidelines, issued following allegations of forced labour in cotton production entities in China’s Xinjiang region, said.

“We hope that the guidelines will be used to make the industry more attractive for workers,” Federation president Masanao Kanbara was quoted as saying by a Japanese media outlet.

The government plans to draw up guidelines this summer on human rights due diligence.

The way in which some foreign technical trainees are treated in the country’s textile manufacturing industry has reportedly raised concerns.

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