FASHION & LABOR RIGHTS

PUBLISHED WORK

"Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Bangladesh's forgotten apparel workers," Sarah Labowitz & Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Dec 2015 (map)

"Business as Usual is Not an Option: Supply chains and sourcing after Rana Plaza," Sarah Labowitz & Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Apr 2014

"Hearing on Prospects for Democratic Reconciliation and Workers' Rights in Bangladesh," Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Sarah Labowitz, 11 Feb 2014

RESEARCH IN TV, RADIO, FILM

"Bangladesh, Where Apparel Is King: Fast Fashion," Channel One News (New York), 25-28 Apr 2017

The True Cost, directed by Andrew Morgan, Untold Creative Films, 15 May 2015

"Fashion," Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO, 26 Apr 2015

"Most Bangladeshi garment workers are women, but their union leaders weren't. Until now." PRI's The World, Bruce Wallace, 16 Sep 2015

COMMENTARY

"Can Fashion's Human Rights Problems be Fixed? In Conversation: Sarah Labowitz," Justin Lancy, The Kindcraft, 10 Jul 2017

“'We have one eye open and one eye closed': The dirty labor secrets of fast fashion," Quartz, 24 Apr 2017

"Do we need a binding convention on decent work in global supply chains?" openDemocracy, 27 Jun 2016

"Can Bangladesh’s garment industry ever be safe and sustainable?" Quartz India, 10 Dec 2015

"A Tipping Point in Bangladesh?" Council on Foreign Relations Development Channel, 8 Dec 2015

"Monitoring working conditions at factories won’t stop future tragedies," with Sanchita Saxena, The Globe and Mail, 10 Aug 2015

PRESS

"Bangladesh suffers another garment factory fire," David Styles, Ecotextile News, 20 Sep 2017

"The international effort to fix Bangladesh’s deadly factories has a basic math problem," Marc Bain, Quartz, 5 Jul 2017

"Garment Factories in Bangladesh Are Trying on Gender Equality for Size," M. Syambra Moitozo, Vice News, 25 Apr 2017

"'Keep buying clothes, we need these jobs': What's changed in Bangladesh since the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse," Laura Hensley, National Post, 6 Sep 2016

"Rising from the rubble: Three years ago today, the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,143 people. To this day, conditions have failed to improve," Fleur Britten, Times of London, 24 Apr 2016

"3 years after a devastating factory collapse, millions of garment workers remain at risk," Colleen Curry, New York Times Women in the World, 22 Apr 2016

"The problem in Bangladesh’s garment industry is three times bigger than anyone suspected," Marc Bain, Quartz, 18 Dec 2015

"Mapped: Bangladesh Still Has a Garment Factory Problem," Siobhan O'Grady, Foreign Policy, 17 Dec 2015

"Are Factories in Bangladesh Any Safer Now? Not really. New research from New York University shows reform has been slow and incomplete." Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, 15 Dec 2015

"Report: A Year After Bangladesh Disaster, Retailers Fail To Address Biggest Factory Risks," Clare O'Connor, Forbes, 24 Apr 2014