Exciting News: New partnership between the PST and STS 2030
We are excited to announce a new cooperation between the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) and Sustainable Textiles Switzerland 2030 (STS 2030)! The collaboration between the two multi-stakeholder-initiatives is driven by a shared understanding: To address the sustainability challenges of today’s modern and complex supply chains, it takes a comprehensive and integrated approach by companies […]
Recap to the 2025 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector
This year’s forum provided participants in Paris and online with an important platform for exchanging perspectives, making lasting contacts and taking joint action. As in previous years, this event brought together representatives from governments, businesses, trade unions, civil society, and international organisations to discuss challenges, risks, and best practices in implementing due diligence in global […]
Update of the “Gender Data Gap” Partnership Initiative
The Partnership Initiative “Gender Data Gap” has made great progress the past year. In July 2024, a large workshop was held for project participants in Bonn, where key issues and measures were discussed and finalised. In addition, a final trip to Tunisia took place in December, during which the project participants were visited on site […]
Reflecting on the Second Phase of the PST Partnership Initiative Joint Grievance Mechanism with Fair Wear
Successful Completion of a Transformative Collaboration In October 2024, the second phase of the Joint Grievance Mechanism initiative by Fair Wear and the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) concluded, marking the successful end of a transformative multi-year project. This second phase, launched in May 2023, aimed to expand access to remedy for workers in […]
The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles celebrates its 10th anniversary!
Because no single actor can do it alone – alliances to strengthen human rights and environmental protection worldwide. Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development ©Julia Merkel The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles celebrated its tenth anniversary with a jubilee event in Berlin. Together with Development Minister Svenja Schulze, Parliamentary State Secretaries Dr Bärbel […]
amfori, Fair Wear and PST Join Forces to Tackle Grievances from Shared Factories
November 2025 In September 2022, amfori, Fair Wear and the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to to jointly address workers’ grievances raised at factories shared between their member brands . Now, the organisations have agreed to continue this collaboration, to pool resources in remediating grievances and to generate further […]
Gina Burgard is the new head of the Partnership Secretariat
Linda Schraml hands over the management of the Textiles Partnership Secretariat to Gina Burgard Over the past two years, the Textiles Partnership has made important progress with the implementation of the realignment under the leadership of Linda Schraml, for example through the realization of joint projects in the focus areas of gender equality, grievance mechanisms […]
Adapting purchasing practices, safeguarding livelihoods
The recently adopted Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive at EU level, which will introduce further requirements for the private sector in addition to the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, as well as the ILO expert meeting on wage policy in February, provide new impetus for the topic of living wages. In the Textile Partnership, […]
Webinar Series: Europe’s Green Transition in the Textile Sector
The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles and the Green Button launch joint webinar series on upcoming legislation under the EU Textile Strategy Join the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles and the Green Button on 21st of September 2023 for the kick-off of its upcoming six-month webinar series to learn more about the EU’s Green Deal and how […]
Strengthening Supplier Capacity to Collect and Use Gender-Disaggregated Supply Chain Data
Collaboration with Ethical Trading Initiative kicked off In April, the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles and the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) kicked off a joint project that aims at strengthening suppliers’ capacity to collect and use gender-disaggregated supply chain data. The new project starts where an earlier cooperation between both organisations had left off. The Ethical […]