Liminal Apparel

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Fairtrade, organic cotton basics

Started 2008. Off the rack or custom design mens, womens and childrens apparel and bags made under fair trade working conditions using only sustainable or organic materials. To better the lives of the producers, the company re-invests all profits back to the communities who create the products. Freeset, which is a business where women from human trafficking can get work and freedom, manufacture 95% of their products. Available in Australia at stockists in Victoria and online.

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Liminal Apparel
Exclusively organic products This company only uses GOTS certified organic cotton, and a 100% GOTS certified organic process for dyeing. [Source 2018][More on Eco-Certification] A+ grade in 2019 Ethical Fashion Report A+ grade in the Baptist World Aid Australia's 'Ethical Fashion Report 2019', which grades companies, from A to F, on the strength of their systems to mitigate against the risks of forced labour, child labour and worker exploitation in their supply chains, as well as protect the environment from the harmful impacts of the fashion industry. Assessment criteria fall into five main categories: policies, transparency and traceability, auditing and supplier relationships, worker empowerment and environmental management. [Source 2019][More on Workers Rights] Uzbek cotton commitment This company has made a public commitment to not use Uzbekistani cotton. (Uzbekistan is the world's fifth largest exporter of cotton and has for decades been criticised for using the forced labour of its schoolchildren to harvest that cotton by hand under appalling conditions. This practice is organised and controlled by the central government). [Source 2015][More on Human Rights]		Fairtrade products This company sells Fairtrade Certified products. [Source 2019][More on Workers Rights] Freeset This company uses Freeset to manufacture 95% of its products. Freeset is a fair trade business offering employment to women trapped in Kolkata's sex trade, empowering them to leave work they never chose to do in the first place. [Source 2014][More on Human Rights]

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