The annual Fashion Transparency Index reviews brands’ public disclosure on human rights and environmental issues across 258 indicators in 5 key areas:

1. Policies & Commitments
2. Governance
3. Supply Chain Traceability
4. Know, Show & Fix
5. Spotlight Issues, which this year are:

• Decent work, covering: forced labour, living wages, purchasing practices, unionisation, and collective bargaining
• Gender & racial equality
• Sustainable sourcing & materials
• Overconsumption, business models, waste & circularity
• Water & chemicals
• Climate change, fossil fuels & biodiversity

Key results:

• 41% of brands disclose their approach to recruitment fees in the supply chain
• 6% of brands disclose the number of workers in the supply chain affected by the payment of recruitment fees or related costs
• 23% of brands disclose data on the prevalence of modern slavery related violations and risk factors
• 36% of brands disclose gender pay gap in their own operations
• 4% of brands disclose ethnicity pay gap data in their own operations
• 7% of brands publish actions focusing on the promotion of racial and ethnic equality in supplier facilities
• 5% of brands disclose a method for ringfencing labour costs in price negotiations
• 2% of brands disclose the number of orders where labour costs were ring-fenced
• 28% of brands publish approach to living wages for supply chain workers
• 1% of brands disclose the number of supply chain workers that are being paid a living wage