RSN’s cotton program works with numerous stakeholders to ensure cotton produced with forced labor does not make its way into garment and home goods supply chains.
Our Solutions
RSN is working globally on the multi-stakeholder initiative YESS: Yarn Ethically and Sustainably Sourced to drive slavery out of cotton production by implementing a due diligence verification program with cotton yarn spinners.
RSN is part of the Cotton Campaign, a coalition advocating with governments, companies, and investors to use their leverage to end this continuous and systematic human rights violations. Together with the Cotton Campaign, RSN collaborates with a broad network of NGOs, apparel brands and retailers, investors, industry associations, and trade unions seeking to end forced labor in Uzbekistan’s and Turkmenistan’s cotton sectors with a variety of tools and strategies. We leverage our unique position as a sustainable, responsible, and impact (SRI) investor, and as a NGO to ensure major apparel brands and retailers are not sourcing cotton from Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan until their governments stop exploiting unwilling citizens during their cotton harvests.