Postbus 11584 1001 GN Amsterdam
Tel	:	020 - 412 27 86
Fax	:	0318 - 412-27 86
Email	:	info@cleanclothes.org
Web	:	www.cleanclothes.org / www.schonekleren.nl

The Clean Clothes Campaign aims to improve working conditions and to empower workers in the global garment industry, in order to end the oppression, exploitation and abuse of workers in this industry, most of whom are women. It does this by:

• Putting pressure on companies to take responsibility to ensure that their garments are produced in decent working conditions.
• Supporting workers, trade unions and NGOs in producer countries.
• Raising awareness among consumers by providing accurate information about working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industry, in order to mobilise citizens to use their power as consumers.
• Exploring legal possibilities for improving working conditions, and lobbying for legislation to promote good working conditions and for laws that would compel governments and companies to become ethical consumers.

Established Clean Clothes Campaigns are autonomous coalitions with NGOs (consumer, research, women's, fair trade and youth organisations, solidarity groups, churches, etc) and trade unions as members in European countries, each with a secretariat, and each sending a representative to the European Coordination Meeting.
CCC 'projects' or 'project groups' or 'task forces' are NGOs or networks of them in garment producing countries, with which the CCC works together. In India there is a 'Clean Clothes Project groups'. The address is:

C/o SAVE, 5, Iswariya Nagar KNP Colony, Dharapuram main Road Near Government Hospital Tirupur – 641 608 TamilNadu
Tel	:	00-91-421-242 81 00
Fax	:	00-91-421-242 82 00
Email	:	sare@mda.vsnl.net.in
Web	:	www.cleanclothes.org

Between October 2000 and March 2001 SOMO and the Dutch CCC did a research project in India and Sri Lanka into labor conditions in garment factories that are producing for major Dutch retailers. The Dutch companies are: Bijenkorf, HEMA, Hunkemöller, Vroom & Dreesman and WE International. These companies all have a code of conduct and have started implementation systems, but there is still no sign that independent verification of what the working conditions are in the facilities producing their garments.