Garment industry: As fashion sales fall globally, big brands leave Asia’s garment workers in limbo
KIERAN GUILBERT, NAIMUL KARIM and ANURADHA NAGARAJ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
India tea workers live in ‘appalling’ conditions on $2 a day, says report
Thomson Reuters Foundation Women working on tea plantations in northeast India earn a “pitiful” $US2 a day and live in “appalling” conditions with almost no toilets, according to a report released on Tuesday. The investigation by the British charity Traidcraft Exchange found workers in the tea-growing state of Assam were paid 137 rupees ($US2) a […]