Supported by 234 organisations across Europe and Asia, Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC)’s manifesto imagines a “just fashion system” that puts people before profit.

alled the Fashioning a Just Transition Manifesto, CCC’s document provides a set of principles that it says “must underpin all action” related to the future of fashion.

As well as providing a vision for the future, CCC’s manifesto suggests incremental changes to support the future of fashion.

CCC is calling on allies to support the manifesto and “weave the future we want”.

“The CCC Just Transition Manifesto is an important marker for our movement. While it shows we have a lot of work to do to build the world we want to live in, it also shows us we are far from alone in that fight,” Alena Ivanova, campaigns lead at Labour Behind the Label, which is supporting the Manifesto, commented.

“We recognise that wealth redistribution, tax justice, and welfare protection for all are as important as sustainable resource use and environmental protection. And so, our allies are everywhere. The CEOs and institutions that built their wealth on this broken system won’t come up with the solutions to fix it. But we will.

“Workers, consumers, citizens, rights defenders – the fashion industry is not designed for our well-being. But the Manifesto shows us we have the power, the vision and the imagination to radically transform this industry, so it delivers for all of us.”

Fashioning a Just Transition Manifesto says 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.

Khalid Mahmood, director at the Labour Education Foundation (LEF), Pakistan, added: “LEF supports Clean Clothes Campaign’s Fashioning a Just Transition Manifesto because it reflects our conviction that climate action in the garment industry must go hand in hand with labour rights, social justice, and corporate accountability.

“For workers in Pakistan, environmental transition cannot be considered just unless it also guarantees decent work, living wages, occupational health and safety, freedom of association, social protection, and meaningful participation of workers in decision-making. The manifesto provides an important framework for ensuring that the costs of transition are not imposed on workers and communities in the Global South but are borne by those who profit most from the industry.”