Tesco, ASDA, Primark, and the slum-dwellers of Dhaka

Louise Banks' trip to Bangladesh, with People Tree, in Easter 2009 - to visit the garment workers who are forced to pay the price for our cheap clothing.
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The Federation of Garment Workers introduced us to people who work in the export garment industry. They told us about their long hours, low pay, and physical and verbal abuse at the factories.
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The Begun Bari slums are situated above the sewage and garbage of Dhaka. One small corrugated room per family and one 'kitchen' per 200 people. Since the visit there have been hunger riots by workers who have not been paid for over three months.
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People Tree endeavour to redress this situation by supporting Fair Trade clothing enterprises in the rural communities of countries in the developing world, including Bangladesh.
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This video footage hopes to uncover the secrets of the large western retail companies who exploit workers in developing countries.
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Please support War on Want's campaign to change legislation so that retailers cannot continue to violate human rights abroad:
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http://www.waronwant.org/campaigns/supermarkets/extra/action/16633-take-urgen...

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Bangladesh
• Dhaka
• Begun Bari
• slums
• garment workers
• Tesco
• Asda
• Primark
• People Tree
• Safia Minney
• Louise Banks
• Fairtrade
• exploitation
• War on Want

[HannanRC]

Excellent to se the awareness raising you guys are doing, we have made a documentary about garment workers. The trailer is on our the page the documentary is called 'The Machinist'

[niirithRadka]

;o(



[jalal448]

100 percent true