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NEWSLETTER 15, JUNE 2002

Editorial

Since 1989 the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) has been working to improve conditions in the global garment industry. Throughout all those years CCC activists have pursued a variety of strategies to achieve positive change in the industry. Despite this passage of time and new developments in the industry and the many countries our network is active in, one of our most important functions is still campaigning. This means running programs to raise awareness and sustain pressure to press for specific demands. Some CCC campaigns are launched to coincide with the core issues that are at the heart of workers' struggles to improve their lives -- for example, the CCC's living wage campaign and a campaign on the right to organize. Other campaigns come out of cases of individual labor rights violations that the CCC has been asked to work on. When workers organizations ask for international solidarity actions to support their struggles in such cases, the CCC distributes urgent appeals for action. Sometimes these appeals grow into campaigns. For example, there was a case of the Swiss lingerie multinational Triumph and a case at the Ladybird factory in Thailand. There are also campaigns that target specific groups for attention, for example young football fans who will be following the upcoming World Cup. This issue of the Clean Clothes newsletter includes information on several of these CCC campaigns. Also inside this edition you'll find information on working conditions in Swaziland, India, and Sri Lanka. And because we're regularly contacted by individuals and organizations interested in learning more about the CCC's position on codes of conduct and methods for monitoring and verifying code compliance, we've included an update on these issues, a report on a conference where many of these concerns were discussed, and also a bit of background information to provide a clearer context of the CCC's work in this area. We hope you find the newsletter informative and we encourage you to give us feedback on the activities presented on the following pages.

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