Interim decision on complaint against C&A leaves much to be desired
On 2 July 2020, SOMO, Clean Clothes campaign Netherlands (SKC) and a submitted a complaint to the Complaints and Disputes Committee (CDC) of the Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garment and Textile (AGT) about C&A’s substandard efforts to address ongoing union busting and labour rights violations at one of their supplier factories in Yangon, Myanmar. C&A is a member of the AGT and therefore has an obligation to live up to the human rights due diligence obligations laid out in the agreement. On 14 July 2021, the committee published its interim decision(opens in new window) .
Read the complete response by SOMO, SKC and Myanmar labour rights organisation to the interim decision.