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Esme Gibbins

Esme Gibbins
Position
(Former) Media Relations and Communications Manager
Organisation
ETI

Blog posts from this author

Building trust in Tamil Nadu’s garment sector

11 June 2015
Trust and confidence; these two words are so important to our work within Tamil Nadu’s garment and textiles sector.
India's garment sector

What is the True Cost of the garment sector?

29 May 2015
New documentary True Cost exposes some challenging truths about the human impact of the garment sector. But does it tell the whole story?

Flying the flag - Protect, Respect, Remedy

3 December 2014
How is ETI putting the UN Guiding Principles into practice? We explored just that during our side event at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, sharing live examples from company, NGO and trade union members.

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