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Do you know where your clothes come from? Learn how 5 of your favourite companies stack up

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Women’s Economic Justice

Do you know where your clothes come from? Learn how Aritzia, Herschel Supply Co., Joe Fresh, lululemon and Roots stack up in terms of supply chain transparency.

A brown skinned middle age woman wearing a canary yellow headscarf stands in front of a rough-textured concrete wall with a serious look on her face.

Do You Know the Women Who Made Your Clothes? Good Luck Finding Out!

  • Brand
  • Women’s Economic Justice

Most fashion brands don't publicly disclose where their clothes are made, and when they do, the information is incomplete or too vague. It's time to change that.

Grey rocks of varying sizes along with parts of grey torn cotton material are mixed with pieces of old wood and string. A dirty Joe Fresh label sits in the middle of the rocks on the ground.

Committed to Care at the Generation Equality Forum

  • Feminist Aid
  • Women's Transformative Leadership
  • Women’s Economic Justice

Generation Equality Forum: A blueprint for gender equality “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights” – a key refrain from the Fourth United Nations World Conference…

A multi-storey street art painting on the side of a building in an urban environment depicts a woman and child, both with brown skin. In the foreground, there are four sets of wrinkled hands of varying skin tones palms facing us with leaves and butterflies in the background.

Camino Verde: The Green Way

Women’s Economic Justice

Oxfam Canada, Oxfam in Guatemala and five local partner organizations are working together to develop sustainable, small-scale enterprises headed by Indigenous women and youth.

A woman wearing a red skirt, a blue blouse and a purple sweater stands to our right while smiling and looking to her pots of colourful flowers.

Remembering the victims of the Rana Plaza disaster

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Women’s Economic Justice

Building a safer, fairer and sustainable recovery for garment sector workers.

Six young women standing in a line holding pink, yellow and green protest signs in Bengali and English to compensate workers

Eight years on from the Rana Plaza tragedy

Women’s Economic Justice

The Rana Plaza collapse claimed the lives of more than a thousand garment workers and the women who make our clothes are still stuck in poverty

Woman in pink garment holding child looking off at collapsed building.

Millions of women domestic workers face further slide into poverty

  • Emergency Response
  • Women’s Economic Justice

As the world grapples with the economic fallout from COVID-19, women domestic workers are experiencing an even further slide into poverty.

Women domestic workers stand in line at food distribution center set up by Nari Maitree.

‘There is no focus on domestic workers’: The invisible workforce in Bangladesh during COVID-19

  • Violence Against Women and Girls
  • Women’s Economic Justice

The life of a domestic worker in Dhaka city...

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