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From April 15th to 24th 2022, we invite you to the Fashion Transparency Editathon by Wiki Loves Fashion Transparency 2022. An editathon is a virtual event in which we collaborate to improve Wikipedia articles on a topic, in this case transparency in fashion. To achieve this task, we identified two work segments:

  1. Transparency in fast fashion brands
    • Problem identification: Fast fashion brands and retailers produce too much too fast and manipulate us into a toxic cycle of overconsumption. Meanwhile, the majority of people that make our clothes are not paid enough to meet their basic needs, and already feel the impacts of the climate crisis – which the fashion industry fuels.
    • Problem: Both people and nature are paying the price of the fashion industry's unregulated exploitation and waste. Despite the solutions that already exist, brands are avoiding the realities of climate breakdown by continuing to pursue extractive business models and greenwashing their way to sustainability.
    • Objective: Carry out the task of adding critical or controversial sections to the articles of fast fashion brands, since there are many fashion companies that create corporate articles on Wikipedia, where they only show institutional information, leaving aside the problems they generate. The goal is to inform people on all aspects of the supply chain, and demand brands to dramatically reduce their social and environmental impact through transparency in their articles.
    • Task: You can add a section or more information on controversies (including social and environmental responsibility issues)
  2. Rights in the fashion industry (human, labor, environmental, children's, women's, and problems generated by the fashion industry)
    • Identification of the problem: The current exploitative business models with which the big fashion brands operate allow money and power to be in the hands of those who are willing to abuse human rights, labor and environmental laws (or lack thereof). There is a huge global imbalance that needs to be addressed to allow for redistribution.
    • Problem: We need laws to ensure that people who work in supply chains are paid a living wage, to prioritize education, and to achieve a greater understanding of the value of clothing: its social and environmental cost.
    • Objective: By publishing Wikipedia articles related to human rights, labor and environmental laws in the fashion industry, we want to bring knowledge to people about how to create laws that defend textile workers, people who consume fashion and protect the ecosystems.
    • Task: Edit or improve articles related to Law & the Fashion Industry

Tasks

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Add sections on controversies (including social and environmental responsibility issues)

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  1. Textile industry
  2. Economy
  3. Production (economics)
  4. Labor relations
  5. United Nations
  6. Civil and political rights
  7. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  8. Economic, social and cultural rights
  9. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  10. World Trade Organization
  11. Cultural appropriation
  12. Human rights
  13. International Bill of Human Rights
  14. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  15. American Convention on Human Rights
  16. Human rights and climate change
  17. Environmental law
  18. United Nations Environment Programme
  19. Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
  20. United Nations Development Programme
  21. Sustainable Development Goals
  22. United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
  23. United Nations Industrial Development Organization
  24. UNESCO
  25. World Bank
  26. International Monetary Fund
  27. Inter-American Development Bank
  28. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  29. Kyoto Protocol
  30. Paris Agreement
  31. Convention on Biological Diversity
  32. Nagoya Protocol
  33. Commercial law
  34. Internationalization
  35. Mercosur
  36. BRICS
  37. Developed country
  38. Emerging market
  39. Newly industrialized country
  40. Developing country
  41. Least developed countries
  42. Economic growth
  43. Ecological economics
  44. Natural resource economics
  45. Carbon credit
  46. Environmental justice
  47. Social economy
  48. Informal economy
  49. Factors of production
  50. Privately held company
  51. Supply chain
  52. Marketing channel
  53. Human capital
  54. Value added
  55. Corporate social responsibility
  56. Labor rights
  57. Employment contract
  58. Collective agreement
  59. Slavery
  60. Discrimination
  61. Economic discrimination
  62. Affirmative action
  63. Women's rights
  64. UN Women
  65. UNICEF
  66. Feminization of poverty
  67. Gender equality
  68. Working time
  69. Salary
  70. Minimum wage
  71. Sweatshop
  72. Maquiladora
  73. Collective bargaining
  74. Welfare
  75. Employee benefits