Promoting the Right to Freedom of Association in Global Fashion Supply Chains through Business and Human Rights Laws in Europe

在过去的半个世纪里，全球服装行业的价值爆炸式增长，但其在最大限度地提高服装工人福利方面的效用尚未完全实现。全球供应链已经被塑造成剥削全球南方工人的廉价劳动力，这使得品牌越来越多地将自己与其企业的人力和环境成本区分开来。该项目旨在确定全球北方国家如何发挥作用，加强全球时尚品牌对“快时尚”供应链中侵犯人权行为的问责。它旨在深入了解全球北方的人权尽职调查法是否以及如何提供一种新的可行的供应链治理形式，通过促进结社自由权，有可能为工人的工作条件带来实质性改善

The global garment sector has exploded in value over the last half-century and yet its utility in maximising the welfare of the garment workers at the centre of it, has not fully been realised. Global supply chains have been fashioned to exploit the cheap labour of workers in the Global South, which has seen brands increasingly demarcate themselves from the human and environmental costs of their enterprise. This project seeks to determine how states in the Global North can play a role in augmenting the accountability of global fashion brands for human rights abuses in 'fast fashion' supply chains. It aims to offer an insight into whether and how human rights due diligence laws in the Global North may offer a new viable form of supply chain governance with the potential to bring about material improvements to working conditions for workers, by promoting the right to freedom of association