Fashion

Amazon finally reveals details about its supply chain


E-commerce giant Amazon has publicly disclosed the names and addresses
of over 1,000 facilities which produce Amazon-branded products, following
requests from organizations campaigning for more transparency in the
e-commerce and fashion industries. The list of suppliers is available at
sustainability.aboutamazon.com.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) have
celebrated the move with official statements. “The decision by Amazon, the
world’s largest online retailer, sends an unambiguous message that
transparency is critically important and here to stay and grow,” said Aruna
Kashyap, Senior Women’s Rights Counsel at HRW. According to the 2019
Fashion Transparency Index (FTI), of the 200 major apparel brands surveyed,
35 percent publish their production locations, up from 12.5 percent of the
40 brands surveyed in 2016.

Despite welcoming Amazon’s initiative, both NGOs highlighted that the
list is “not easily accessible, sortable or sufficiently specific to learn
the type of products made in each of the listed facilities, limiting its
value for consumers, workers, and labor advocates”, in the words of CCC.
They urged Amazon to publish information about its supply chain in a way
that complies with the standards set out in the ‘Transparency Pledge’,
which means revealing not only the names and addresses of every factory
working for them, but also the product type each of them manufactures, the
number of workers in each facility, and their parent companies.

“Brands that don’t publicly disclose their supply chains may not know
where their products are made, making it harder to determine whether they
are acting responsibly, and where the disclosure is not easily accessible,
they make it difficult for workers to report labor abuses,” explained
Kashyap.



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