by. feel i think the number of e.u. member states have deed localized production and see no reason for shoes and leather bag to be labelled made in bangladesh. i have my own business to get up in. the european central bank we have to buy chip lead projects they don't live with this and if we're discussing from

u.b.s. i totally i know they're about to head i said. our leaders are being exposed to the force of flying f. fourteen point lead. over the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center for lesser production. this industry generates over three hundred fifty million euros per year for the country. and has a very bad suburb of the capital dhaka around three hundred tonne there is a field of twenty five acres producing the clothes and leather goods that flood the international market. more than fourteen million skins are treated every year in the slum warehouses and turner is sit side by side. a nightmare situation. for which we westerners are also responsible i serve

god. all skins are wired like this every day and each one of the factories we're in one of the has very bad tenor is an average sized factory employing around thirty workers it's here that the cycle of leather tending begins. every day around one thousand tonnes of skins arrive directly from albatross all over the country to be stored in this hangar. go to encounter skins arrive coated in salt so as to avoid rapid decay.

but what you want to say i was in the morning we get the deliveries and we cover the skins and lie rinse them and dry them how they was mixed after applying the chemicals we place them in the tanning drums and then we wash them i don't know why there was ever going to get large but we do this three times over and in but then again there was. a large proportion of the litter bags jackets and other accessories we buy today are produced in tanneries such as this the working conditions are antiquated nothing has changed in thirty years neither machines nor techniques. telling is a long process to remove the parasites the fact in the head is work is carry handles. great intreat the tons of skins using numerous chemical products and

wearing only gloves for protection. i am cutting the small pieces of skin that had been damaged during washing. sherman is one of the forty cells and working in the turner is more than twelve hours a day nonstop manual workers are hired on a daily basis without training all contracts. few women are able to withstand such physically exhausting and wearing labor.

i wear a scarf to protect my hair otherwise i would lose it because of the lime water. and when the water runs over my hands it burns away my skin that what i. meant in the others put up with these working conditions for the simple reason that today in bangladesh forty percent of the population is unemployed getting a job in eternity is considered a lucky break. the main problem in the tannery is the smell was. bad it makes us sick blackens and it's a way of our skin. color but people like me have no other choices and we have to take the job. but.

i work long hours because i have to cut the small leather pieces and unwrap the new skins they arrive. to live what sometimes the skins are crawling with parasites and the smell of style. and you've got to find it takes away my appetite. i remember my first day of work in the factory. the smell was so disgusting that i threw up and fainting like so many guy had the noise of the machines pounding in my head until it would burst. but at the fraction i was i was sick for a week after but now i'm used to it.

and doesn't know how old she is she may be twenty but she's been working in a tunnel he said to lose on a good months she can earn forty euros i can't let. it go down this is my mother's house. i was a kid and this is my daughter. rosa post three year old daughter. it can. be done and then i don't want. to give. it back and that there's nothing at the factory no medical support. and that i have no friends and there are no safety regs. you know when i start every day at eight

am and there's no paid overtime they should you know i never get any holidays and if i miss half a day they count it as a full day i don't know if i'm sick it's the same they count me up sent so i have to go to work even when i'm ill. but otherwise i have no money left at the end of the month. the judge will. sharman spends ten euros on her rent and for this price she gets one tiny room in which to house the whole family. who can live. like her the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents are dependent on the other industry. is enough that the abortion i never get a pay rise. is down i asked for one in january but nothing happened they said to be

happy with what i had or leave. after paying my rent and giving some money to my parents there's almost nothing left to give after i had a better salary i could save some money but it's impossible right now. we're human i need money to bring up my daughter and send her to school but there's no one to show you how can i educate her properly without money that i'm sure of the. others even had a hard life will be the same for my kids. charmaine would like to be able to count on her husband to feed the family. was ok at. what time did you get back home. at five and you know i'm late because i went to the fish market he got the time should leave for work at noon i caught a cold i didn't feel well i must write it down you go to work at noon because you could call and me how do you think i'm going to go to work at eight. little one mom

is preparing dinner. thank you. so never wake up i don't get up now that the. national pastime let it go we have no electricity and no gas here so it's difficult to cook but push up that from us and i don't. like a more comfortable and cleaner life. i keep cleaning but everything gets dirty so quickly and i had to get. we live with the stink of the tanneries.

we have every kind of problem here. go by nobody but we can't afford to go anywhere else so i have to stay in this disgusting environment going nowhere as i would hope that it was but that i guess. i. never would. thank you much if it was a population of twelve million i exist to watch and is a serious problem thirty percent of the population don't have any sherman and her husband are among those who have the privilege of access to a water pump which they share with the neighborhoods but it's not drinkable and has to be paid for if you move the. family my husband pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time i don't mention his that's why i

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that i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me that you should and that you're not my dad. i got this morning i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well he doesn't look understand about the boss was unhappy about that he got angry with me and he told me i would lose my job if i didn't come back but how can i work in this state my hands and my feet hurt so much. less a worker's feet and hands are eaten away by the chemical products used throughout

the tanning process these products are extremely toxic for the skin but also when inhaled the tanning factories have no ventilation system. all the workers are exposed to danger but especially those who are in direct contact with the chemicals . proximately three hundred products necessary to soften and the skins ammonium acids wrestling fans a c o's old chromate. hydrogen sulfide and more. inflammable explosive and corrosive they use requires training the workers never receive. because we use all the derivatives of potassium. but how c.m.i. and ammonium. when we rinse the skins we use lots of acids. and we put them in the

drums it can be dangerous. for the new workers it's dangerous but after they get used to it i. look at my hands there i k. there's no problem the batteries because i've just used chemicals. that can be met when is a few doctors working in his area bag. eat you know. this liver evolution. if you don't know the future. if you want to do when you're going. to fix the colors on the skins the work is use mercury huge quantities a used for blue and for black this process has been outlawed in france for twenty years because mercury permeates the body and contaminates all the vital organs.

in their union will you stop in the gulf unless. you feel me. and you will be with. you. in two thousand and ten at apex one of the country's so called model tanneries three workers died and ten was seriously injured in an explosion caused by an area . handling of chemicals. yes there are accidents you have to be careful throughout the whole process especially when turning the drums on and off and when you put the chemicals in. we often drop the sacks on our feet touch the chemicals.

one third of workers will be injured. for fifty years now the tenants union representing twenty thousand workers has attempted to improve working conditions for its members to no avail one of what i. thought all of that to be owners conversation and their behavior towards us. shows that their priority is to give us the least they can. without for many years their union our union has put forward peaceful solutions. that they show no interest in. i think with the tight ship they're going on with us so we have no other choice than to revolt. i don't know what. long live the union strike no workers unite workers of the world unite workers of the world get up and fight the most obnoxious the more almost all of us are sick but they're

not going to the bosses have never taken any health measures but what a night they don't want doctors in the factories caring for the workers but i like that's why every day here at work is die from leather sickness look at the gum or see. when the workers take to the streets to demand an increase in the minimum wage the police welcome them with guns and ammunition. in two thousand and ten several thousand demonstrated three died fifty were injured and hung. drinks were arrested. a month from the leather industry that is not a risk to health among the whole. national we want the bosses to respect the

employment and health legislation of this country you know see the quasi doesn't for the money i mean the total by ignoring the law they make bigger profits lobby have got on. as it does allow i do this to protect her from evil. than to lead the nation i don't like and. my daughter is three but she still can't walk properly there are not. she has trouble eating and falls over a lot and. i think she still can't talk to one of allah now she's very weak

and her health is very fragile here and there are going to do that but i can only afford to feed her rice and biscuits right back ok financially until i. need a car. and. has no health protection the only way she can obtain health care is that the some sole dispensary which also is free consultations. ninety percent of the of the workers develop an illness as a direct consequence of their work if you live beyond fifty.

what are your symptoms are six months i've gradually been feeling worse and worse the more i work out the weaker i get. where do you work it out the other factory. visually career women working in canneries are often frail. they suffer from the general infections that are very joint pain fever and coughing . children want to. finish it off and have respiratory complications during the men are also debilitated or dishwasher their body little suffering from part problems and gastritis. can not simply. feel shamming also worries for her daughter who is not growing well

i'm coming from. a visit where is your child while you are working better she stays of my little brother. i'm here for the last twenty years right now i'm just. going to. be in the one you're doing themselves are you going to. give believe this is one of them there. in this very bag no one is. tight as he is three hundred times higher here. and in the rest of the country but sherman and her family have no other choice than to endure the working conditions and to live in the sun breathable environment if you. please three or four stars you get. here you come. here i'm coming from long sleeve.

i don't feel any better. but if you take the one you should. see. this team down everybody. recently and despite her age showman's mother was forced to go back to work in an open air factory in the center of the slum. can get here there's some terrible smells but am i what can we do. i want if we had rice you know a belly would worry about it but it can't be our priority today. in the countryside life is peaceful. and. there but there is no work no food and in the winter.

of a dish. that does happen. every year eight hundred thousand people leave their own fertile land so fertile lands to crowd into his every bag and its surrounding area it's. a willing to accept such conditions because the turner is of their only hope. sharmeen is among these climate refugees she's originally from. the northern island of bangladesh and go east by water in two thousand and five and i understand that. we had to come here yeah because the river overflowed that lot of them and house was washed away. and i don't know.

i will tell. you when i. think about that with the mother did my parents have nowhere else to live so they stay here with us. in that way only did they tell you that the on the flight and i didn't know what is your but i'm also from poland and i ended up here because my home was swept away i built my house seven times and seven times it was carried away by the flood waters i have no more land to live on and no money to buy more there was no more work for us there that's why i came to talk about it when i'm on the rails i work at the tannery for forty five euros a month it's the only way for me to survive. on this yes i will but among friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. sometimes how do you have this in the bible to do that well as a good reason and that is i'd say i think that the. most i think. the line i'm

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