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Establishing an effective Social Compliance platform and ensuring labour standards for workers towards to achieve LWG certification in the Leather value chain in Bangladesh

The leather industry is one of Bangladesh’s oldest and renowned sectors. Since 1960s, it has grown on a large scale. Known for producing high-quality leather and leather goods, the sector has become the second largest export-earning industry in the country. A significant portion of leather and leather products are exported, including crushed leather, finished leather, […]

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Leather from Bangladesh: Indecent work and hidden supply chain

The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) is publishing this paper in the context of the Together for Decent Leather programme, drawing on earlier publications by the Decent Leather consortium. The paper includes results and conclusions from new research. This paper also summarises the main findings of the report “Employment and Working Conditions in Bangladesh’s

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Countrywide tannery mapping in Bangladesh

Research & Study Countrywide Tannery Mapping in Bangladesh December, 2021 The leather sector of Bangladesh, which constitutes about 3 percent of the world’s market for leather and leather goods, is the country’s third-largest source of export earnings, after readymade garments and jute and jute products. The tanneries are located in five districts of Bangladesh. They

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Establishing an effective Social Compliance platform and ensuring labour standards for workers towards to achieve LWG certification in the Leather value chain in Bangladesh

Overview The Bangladeshi leather industry, which holds the second position in terms of export earnings, has significant consequences. However, the factories at the Estate cannot export leather goods to reputable international brands due to a lack of necessary certification from the Leather Working Group (LWG). The Bangladesh Labour Foundation, supported by Mondiaal FNV, implemented this

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Leather products from Bangladesh

This mapping of the Bangladesh leather industry has been made as a part of the Together for Decent Leather programme, which aims to improve working conditions and to reduce labour rights abuses, focusing on production hubs for leather products in South Asia – in particular in Vellore and Chennai districts in Tamil Nadu, India; greater

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Bangladesh leather industry

Leather from Bangladesh: Indecent work and hidden supply chain

Countrywide tannery mapping in Bangladesh

Leather products from Bangladesh

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