Expanding access to remedy: Fair Wear and the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles further their collaboration 

Interview with Annabel Meurs, Fair Wear’s Executive Director and Gina Burgard, Head of Secretariat of “Partnership for Sustainable Textiles”. The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) and Fair Wear have partnered for many years, jointly expanding access to remedy for workers across the garment and textile sector. Now, they are strengthening their joint commitment to building […]

Review of the 11th Members’ Meeting

On 14th and 15th of May, around 125 participants came together for the 11th Members’ Meeting in Berlin – an event full of impetus, dialogue and practice-oriented discussions on key challenges and progress in the sustainable textile sector. With a diverse programme, the meeting offered room for exchange between politics, business and civil society. Group […]

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 […]

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 […]