Attend to rights abuses in supply chains: Japan Textile Federation

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.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)