Essay: When your clothes come from tragedy, and how remembering Rana Plaza can change that
In an article marking the eighth anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, BONNIE GRAHAM, ethical fashion coordinator at Baptist World Aid Australia, calls for your help in ending forced labour in the cotton industry…
Campaigners challenge UN over forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rights groups on Friday disputed findings by the United Nations showing Uzbekistan has nearly eliminated forced labour from its cotton industry, saying that exploitation is still “systematic”. The annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan is the world’s largest recruitment operation, with about 2.6 million people temporarily picking cotton every year, according to the […]