Sustainable denim brands Outland Denim and Nudie Jeans in partnership with IT company Precision Solutions Group (PSG), have lunched the Supply Network Intelligence System, a program that seeks out and works to resolve instances of deliberate exploitation, slavery and unsafe working conditions.
The program’s first order of business is supporting workers at Turkey’s organic cotton farms, which supply both brands with the cotton they use to create their denim.
The program is set up in a way that allows facilitators to promptly investigate reports of human rights violations and communicate them to stakeholders, government bodies and NGOs for resolution.
Through the program, which has already reached 1.5 million individuals, 150 communications have been arranged with the human rights hotline, ranging from reports of pay discrimination to unsafe working conditions, and 370 vulnerable individuals have benefited from the distribution of COVID-19 prevention kits.
