The majority of us are wearing clothes made by workers paid poverty wages and denied the right to unionise to improve their conditions.
While most companies are happy to make statements about their commitment to ethical practices, these claims are contradicted by demands for ever cheaper prices and faster delivery times.
The horror stories that make it into the news are not just aberrations - exploitation is endemic in the fashion industry from seed to shirt.
This is why People & Planet is taking action to redress fashion.
Main News Stories
Help decide the direction of P&P - Submit a proposal for the Forum 2009
The Forum is P&P's democratic decision-making event - submit your proposals by 8 December
Redress Fashion Day of Action - 4 December 2008
Give Topshop An Early Christmas Present
11 reasons to book now for the 11th Shared Planet
The largest student conference in the UK on Poverty, Human Rights and the Environment is less than 3 weeks away. Here's why we think you should come..
Topshop pulls out of graduate recruitment due to People & Planet
Afraid of having to discuss its working practises, Topshop has cancelled a graduate recruitment event.
Exciting Volunteering Opportunity
New opportunity to work with the Redress Fashion Working Group, gain excellent media skills, and make a big difference to the workers rights and environmental impact of Topshop
Loughborough University tells Topshop to stop sweatshopping
Students from Loughborough University protest outside Topshop against their labour practises and demand they join the ETI
Edinburgh Infiltrate Brand New Topshop
This week, Edinburgh People & Planet members old and new demonstrated at the opening of the city's newly refurbished Topshop.
Media get the message on Topshop's unethical trading
Guerilla fashion show at London Fashion Week Topshop event gets press excited
P&P activists strut their stuff outside Topshop's big show
People & Planet activists stage guerilla fashion show at Topshop's big London Fashion Week event
Redress the high street, redress your campus
The Redress Fashion campaign focuses on what we can do as students to support the struggles of garment workers worldwide.
- Following on from actions against Primark last year, we’ll be targeting Topshop on the high street, demanding that it takes the basic step of joining the Ethical Trading Initiative.
All New Bits
Download resources for your actions.
In our schools, colleges and universities, we will be campaigning to ensure that our university merchandise or school uniforms are sweatshop-free.
P&P is a member of Labour behind the Label a campaign that supports garment workers’ efforts worldwide to improve their working conditions, through awareness raising, information provision and encouraging international solidarity between workers and consumers. Labour behind the Label coordinates the UK platform of the Clean Clothes Campaign, an international campaign, focused on improving working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries, and empower the workers in it.
Previous actions
In June, Arcadia asked to meet P&P. You can read a summary of the meeting.
On Saturday 1 March, during Fairtrade Fortnight, our national day of action put pressure on Topshop to make a serious commitment to improving labour conditions in its supply chains. We are calling for a refund on workers’ rights!
On Thursday 6 December 2007 P&P groups in 16 cities around the country hung out Topshop’s dirty laundry on the high street as part of our national day of action to Redress Fashion.
Oxford P&P call on Topshop to Redress Fashion