ASOS, Anti-Slavery International sign 3-year partnership

UK-based fashion brand ASOS and Anti-Slavery International recently signed a three-year partnership to support the former in delivering its ambitious ‘Fashion with Integrity’ programme. The London-headquartered NGO has acted as ASOS’ ‘critical friend’ since 2017, providing advice, guidance and critique on ethical trade and tackling modern slavery.

Under the new agreement, Anti-Slavery International will advise ASOS on the development of the next phase of its modern slavery strategy.

This will form a core part of its forthcoming human rights strategy, due to be announced by the end of next year as part of its 2030 programme for ‘Fashion with Integrity’, according to an ASOS press release.

UK-based fashion brand ASOS and Anti-Slavery International recently signed a three-year partnership to support the former in delivering its ambitious ‘Fashion with Integrity’ programme. The London-headquartered NGO has acted as ASOS’ ‘critical friend’ since 2017, providing advice, guidance and critique on ethical trade and tackling modern slavery.

The launch of ASOS’ ‘Fashion with Integrity’ programme in September last year followed the rollout of Anti-Slavery International’s five-year strategy, focused on ending child slavery; responsible business; migration and trafficking; and modern slavery and climate change.

Leading up to 2025, a core priority within Anti-Slavery International’s focus on responsible business is to bring about stronger legal frameworks to address the global systems that enable forced labour in supply chains.

This entails ensuring people have rights to decent work and companies are obliged to take meaningful action to eliminate slavery in supply chains; and strengthening access to remedy and justice for workers, in particular people in situations of slavery and forced labour.

The best practice and learnings from ASOS will be used as an evidence base in the NGO’s advocacy and campaigning, helping drive legislative improvements that protect people in, or vulnerable to, modern slavery. ASOS will also be given opportunities to support industry-wide change together with Anti-Slavery International.

In addition, each year the partnership will focus on one or more of the NGO’s intersecting strategic areas of ending child slavery, migration and trafficking, and modern slavery and climate change.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)