but that's just my opinion. of. me today the european consumer has no way of knowing the all region of the leather he bites. can feel the heat a number of e.u.

member states have deed localized production and see no reason for shoes and leather bags to be labelled made in bangladesh. my own guess they get up in. the etc better be happy to bite you played the pickaxe they don't miss it if we thank you scott. i know there about the

head and i said. how i live where is that being exposed for stuff flying it was that it was just. over the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center for letter production. this industry generates over three hundred fifty million euros per year for the country was in has very bad suburb of the capital dhaka around three hundred tanneries occupy a field of twenty five acres producing the clothes and leather goods that flood the international market. that was more than fourteen million skins are treated every year in the slum warehouses in tanneries sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible i

was. this. was. all skins arrive like this every day and each one of the factories where 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. goat in cal's fins arrive coated in salt so as to avoid rapid decay.

what you want to say i was in the morning we get the deliveries and we cover the skins and lie to them and drive them out with a was next after applying the chemicals we place them in the tanning drums then we wash them i don't know why there was they are never going to get like what did we do this three times over and it in but then again there was. a large proportion of the letter bags jackets and other accessories we buy today 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 facts and the hez workers carry handle scrape and treat 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 thousand working in a tanner 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 what i. meant in the other is 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. that i am it makes us sick blackens and eats away at our skin. i don't know but people like me have no other choice so we have to take the job that.

i work long hours because i have to cut the small leather pieces and unwrap the new skins they arrive. here to live what sometimes the skins are crawling with parasites and smell this towel. and 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 fainted next guy had the noise of the machines pounding in my head until it would burst. when i was sick for a week but now i'm used to it.

sherman doesn't know how old she is she may be twenty she's been working an attorney for to lose on a good month she can earn forty euros like it was. a goner this is my mother's house. graphic i did and this is my daughter. rosa post three year old daughter thank god that you don't know then and the more. you give all that. you get back than that there is nothing at the factory they are no medical support. and that i have no friends and there are no safety regulations do you know when i start every day at eight am and there's no paid

overtime watch how they should do night 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 out sent one dollar so i have to go to work even when i'm ill. i don't like either wise i'll have no money left at the end of the month. my money back there's no doubt that the judge will let a bad man. sherman spends ten euros on her rent and for this price she gets one tiny room in which to house the whole family. would be. like her the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents are dependent on the leisure industry. it's. been a better than abortion i never get a pay rise. get 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. after i had a better salary i could save some money but it's impossible right now. i need money to bring up my daughter and send her to school there's no one to show you how can i educate her properly without money. i've had a hard life will be the same for my kids. sherman would like to be able to count on her husband to feed the family. what time did you get back home. at five and you left because i went to the fish market he goes to show what time should leave for work at noon i caught a cold i didn't feel well i'm not right up there you go to work at noon because you could cold i mean how do you think i'm going to go to work at eight. little one

preparing dinner. thank. you. i never wake up i don't get up now that the. national are still on let it go we have no electricity and no gas here so it's difficult to cook but worship that i sent it to. hide like i'm more comfortable in cleaner life. i keep cleaning but everything gets dirty so quickly. they get. we live with the stink of the tanneries. we have every kind of problem

here. good job i love you but we can't afford to go anywhere else so i have to stay in this disgusting environment going on reza i would hope that it was like that get. over. it thank you so much it was with 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 neighbors but it's not drinkable and has to be paid for if you don't. meet my husband pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time not that much then his that's why i have to work at sea. was

a little guy. previously the western companies were operating there you know none of those profits of a one to. sell such as the populations have never had a share in the. natural balance of trade with china investment from china i do believe it must have played a role maybe essential role in today's rice of africa yes the chinese have benefit from but this a fair trade. and emission free accreditation free in-store judge is free. range mentioned free risk free. free.

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more news today von. games flared up. these are the images girls world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. well i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me that you should have made a little but yeah. i guess this morning i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well he doesn't have to look under the bus was unhappy about that he got angry with me and he told me i would lose my job if i didn't come 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 turning process these products are extremely toxic for the skin but also when inhaled the telling 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 are necessary to soften and the skins ammonium acids wrestling fans a c as old crow mates hydrogen sulfide and more. inflammable explosive and corrosive they use requires training the workers never receive. we use all the derivatives of potassium. and ammonium. when we rinse the skins we use lots of acids. and we put them in the drums that can be

dangerous. for the new workers it's dangerous but after they get used to it was. to put my hands there i k. there's no problem that matters because i've just used chemicals. actually met one is a few doctors working in his area bag. it you know. this liver evolution we're going to be doing if you. do you want to do that you are going. to fix the collars on the skins the workers use mercury huge quantities are 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.

stop she's going to let. you see these. days. 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 error in the handling of chemicals. i guess 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. back up to fifty years now the tenants union representing twenty thousand workers has attempted to improve working conditions for its members but to no avail. one of the pockets of the. one of the to be honest conversation and their behavior towards us with shows that their priority is to give us the least they can because truth for many years is that a union our union has put forward peaceful solutions. that they show no interest in will not. run with it i mean i think with the type should i go and i don't want to so we have no other choice than to revolt from an adult up 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 a sick they're not going to the bosses have never taken any health measures for night and i don't want doctors in the factories caring for the work as you know 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 demonstrators and three died fifty were injured and hundreds were arrested. i'm not sure from the way to my leather industry that is not

a risk to health. national we want the bosses to respect the employment and health legislation of this country you know think because she doesn't have the money coming into by ignoring the law only going to make bigger profits lobbying the government. as it does allow i do this to protect her from evil not like. a letter the letter not the legalese but oh. my daughter is three but she still can't walk properly there are a lot. 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 and i'm not too bad but i can only afford to feed her rice and biscuits right back ok fine actually i didn't really. need a cause to rally. and. sherman has no health protection the only way she can obtain health care is at the some soul dispensary which offers free consultations. oh ok. ninety percent of the of the workers develop an illness as a direct consequence of their work if you live beyond fifty.

percent what are your symptoms in the six months i've gradually been feeling worse and worse the more i work out the weaker i get. where do you work than at the other factory. yeah women working in canneries are often frail. they suffer from the general infections they're very joint pain fever and coughing . children who want to. finish it off and have respiratory complications going to the men and row so debilitated hardish from their body to suffering from part. and gastritis. simply. shamming also worries for her daughter who is not growing well

i'm coming to. visit where is your child while you are working that is she stays of my little brother. i'm here for the last twenty years right home to sleep if you are going to. be going you're doing them from. coming here you believe if you want to live. in this very bag no one is. tired as he is three hundred times higher here than 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 come home. this is your first time you get. here you can live. here i'm coming from long sleeve.

i don't feel any better. but if you take the one you should. see. this thing that i. recently and despite her age sherman's mother was full. to go back to work in an open air factory in the center of the slum. not at the get out of here there's some terrible smells but i want can we do. i want only if we had rice in our belly what would worry about it but it can't be our priority today. in the countryside life is peaceful. in other countries there is not political there is no work no food and in the

winter. of the dish. that does happen. every year eight hundred thousand people leave so infertile learn to. crowd into has very bad 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 goes to buy water in two thousand and five the hair salon. to go by and 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 and having a little thing i. did my parents of nowhere else to live so they stay here with us . 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. 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 here. among sherman's friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. sometimes how do you think of this in the bible i mean that well it was a listen and then we had to attend the. most i think. the man himself

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