children, some as young as five years old, are working in dangerous conditions throughout the night and pickers are earning as little as $1 a day, while huge profits are made by giants in the business. this investigation reveals who the real masters of the perfume industry are. ..and how they are falling short of the human rights commitments that they re promoting publicly. ..as we expose for the first time the use of child labour in the supply chains of some of the world s most luxurious fragrances. egyptian jasmine blooms just after sunset. in order to catch the fragrance, the flower needs to be picked before it withers in the sun s heat. heba s family is one of thousands of pickers that have to start work in the middle of the night. the pickers have to strain their eyes to find the flowers and fight through mosquitoes and pesticides, as they gather as much jasmine as possible. basmalla s eyes have started to cause her pain, and today her mother, heba, is taking herto egypt
in the perfume industry. children, some as young as five years old, are working in dangerous conditions throughout the night and pickers are earning as little as $1 a day, while huge profits are made by giants in the business. this investigation reveals who the real masters of the perfume industry are. ..and how they are falling short of the human rights commitments that they re promoting publicly. ..as we expose for the first time the use of child labour in the supply chains of some of the world s most luxurious fragrances. egyptian jasmine blooms just after sunset. in order to catch the fragrance, the flower needs to be picked before it withers in the sun s heat. heba s family is one of thousands of pickers that have to start work in the middle of the night. the pickers have to strain their eyes to find the flowers and fight through mosquitoes and pesticides, as they gather as much jasmine as possible. basmalla s eyes have started to cause her pain, and today her mother, he
Following an own-initiative report by the European Parliament in 2021 and lengthy negotiations that began in 2022, the Council of the European Union finally adopted the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ("CS3D") on Friday, May 24, 2024[1].
Kicking off Drapers Sustainable Fashion Conference 2024, Baroness Young of Hornsey discusses the latest efforts to hold companies into account for their supply chain due diligence through legislation and why she thinks it is more effective than voluntary targets.
In the last few years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number and scope of regional, national, and state-level laws focused on human rights due diligence.