"It is now time for companies to move beyond vague promises, business-as-usual self-regulatory schemes and rhetoric, " said Ineke Zeldenrust, director of Clean Clothes Campaign, a garment workers-rights group that helped hammer out the accord.

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Noah Perin, a commercialization officer at global health NGO PATH, says that if clinicians clean the NASG properly, they can use one garment more than 40 times.

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He searched his dirty white sarong, which was the only garment on his body, for a relatively clean corner, and wiped the table off.

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The Clean Clothes Campaign, a charity group lobbying to improve working conditions in the garment industry, on Monday condemned a recent move by the European Union to relax restrictions on Myanmar, a step that could open the way for more garment manufacturing in the formerly military-run country.

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