From Yahoo Finance: 2025-05-12 08:04:00

Better Cotton plans to improve worker representation and employment conditions by 2030 through a new roadmap building on past success. The focus is on farm operations, collaborations, and cooperation to create a fairer cotton sector. The initiative aims to address labor risks, enhance monitoring, and promote wage transparency for quantifiable improvements.

Better Cotton’s Decent Work Strategy Progress Report highlights efforts to improve working conditions, including risk assessments in 15 countries. Findings reveal poverty and informal employment as key factors in labor rights violations. The organization has refined assurance mechanisms and tested indicators for forced labor, tailoring interventions to regional challenges.

The report stresses the need for strategies to combat child labor and address vulnerabilities in agriculture. Better Cotton’s new roadmap aims to enhance livelihoods for farmers and create sustainable cotton cultivation practices. The organization continues to prioritize systemic changes and collaborative actions with partners to drive industry-wide improvements.



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