Launch of Fashioning a Just Transition Manifesto
On 1st May, CIDSE is joining the Clean Clothes Campaign and its allies for the launch of a Manifesto for a Just Transition in Fashion, pre-endorsed by 230+ organisations in several European and Asian countries. The Manifesto calls us to imagine a just fashion system that puts people before profits. A system that truly meets everyone’s needs without exploiting workers or damaging the environment. We can make it happen – but only if we collectively stand up for our rights to a decent living and a liveable future.
The Fashioning a Just Transition Manifesto, initiated by the Clean Clothes Campaign and co-developed by young people, workers, allies and the Clean Clothes Campaign, presents the core principles that will reflect incremental improvements to the current industry (2030) as well as a vision for what a renewed future of fashion will look like. The manifesto outlines a shared vision for a just fashion system that creates and protects dignified, climate-resilient jobs on a healthy planet.
The aim is to inspire young people, workers, allies and the wider public to mobilise for a Just Transition in solidarity for garment and other workers in the global fashion value chain and support worker awareness raising and organising.
The Manifesto outlines a set of principles for a just fashion system that must underpin all action about the future of fashion. A just fashion system is one that:
- Provides decent work, a high quality of life and equal rights to all workers along the value chain.
- Delivers justice in all its forms – social, economic, gender and climate – now and in the future.
- Redistributes wealth into the hands of workers, providing everyone with living wages and universal social protection.
- Ensures that the costs of climate adaptation and mitigation are fairly shared.
- Invites workers to have a voice in decisions and speak up without fear.
- Restores nature and operates within planetary boundaries.
- Both reduces excessive product volumes and increases job security.
- Holds companies and their executives accountable for any damage they cause.
- Embraces new, just ways of growing and processing raw materials, and making, transporting, retailing, recycling and valuing clothing, footwear and accessories.
- Is built through a movement of collective power and global solidarity.
We are people who make and wear clothes. We are activists, social and environmental movements, civil society, fashion industry workers, trade unions, labour rights organisations, and allies fighting for a world free from exploitation. Together, we are raising our voices for a just fashion system that respects workers’ rights and restores nature.
Additional information
Visit the cleanclothes.org/manifesto for further information
The “Fashioning a Just Transition” Project is co-funded by the European Union. This content is the sole responsibility of CIDSE and does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.
CIDSE contact:
Susana Hernández Torres, Corporate Regulation Officer (hernandez(at)cidse.org)
Cover illustration credit: Clean Clothes Campaign