Film ‘Greed’ urges fashion fans urged to rethink fast buys
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Moviegoers may scorn the billionaire fashion bosses in Greed which opened in Britain on Friday but anti-slavery activists said anyone who buys cheap clothes risks fuelling factory abuses. The film by British director Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan, takes aim at high-flying moguls whose lavish lifestyles, yachts and parties are built […]
UN sees “major progress” on forced labour in Uzbek cotton harvest
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation Uzbekistan made “major progress” on stamping out forced labour in its cotton harvest last year, when 94 per cent of pickers worked voluntarily, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The Central Asian country, one of the world’s biggest cotton exporters, has for years been under international pressure to end the use […]