Jordan

Environmental permitting systems across ten major textile-producing nations contain significant gaps in how industrial pollution from spinning mills, dye houses and garment factories is regulated, a new UNEP report has found. Most national legislation fails to classify textile activities as environmentally significant or to consider gendered impacts on workers.

Jordan’s garment, textile and leather industry is on a high, making a substantial contribution to the country’s GDP while remaining globally competitive, according to a report.

Although the garment industry in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan remains politically and economically important, highlighted as a “high-value industry” in the Economic Modernization Vision of the country, the sector is going through increased uncertainty.

Textile worker unions have launched a campaign in five countries for social protection. One of the root causes of garment workers’ dire situation is that many producing countries have inadequate or non-existent systems for social protection.