SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation and the Fashion Industry
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SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation and the Fashion Industry

SDG 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all". There is increased access to clean drinking water and sanitation, but billions of people - including many indigenous communities - still lack these basic services. As well as many of our water systems are contaminated and world water resources are in an ecological crisis. Worldwide, 1 in 4 people (2 billion people) around the world lack safe drinking water (WHO/UNICEF 2021), and almost half of the global population (3.6 billion people) lack safe sanitation. (WHO/UNICEF 2021).

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SDG 5: Gender Equality and the Fashion Industry
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SDG 5: Gender Equality and the Fashion Industry

Gender equality is one of the most disused goals but there are still so many targets to reach in regards to eliminating the root causes of discrimination against women, transgender, non- binary and 2-spirit people that persists within the private and public spheres.

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SDGs 1-4 Recap: No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well-being, and Quality Education
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SDGs 1-4 Recap: No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well-being, and Quality Education

The fashion industry has contributed to maintaining poverty and food insecurity globally. Fashion impacts food insecurity in two ways: the taking of the land and the usage of the land. Food security means food sovereignty; the materials are part of a much larger picture of colonization and exploitation of the Indigenous people of the land and their traditional agricultural practices and systems.

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