i. think i. leave today the european consumer has no way of knowing the all region of the leather he bites. the feel of the 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.

i am my own business and they get up in. the etc very happy to bite you played the critics they don't read this and if we're discussing you go to the i know they followed the hen i said. how enablers i being exposed to supply . led them to her. over the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center full of the production. this industry generates over. three hundred

fifty million euros per year for the country that has very bad suburb of the capital dhaka around three hundred ten there is 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. with. the skins arrive like this every day and each one of the factories where in one of the has area back turner 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 in callsigns arrive coated in salt so as to avoid rapid decay. was what you wanted 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 there was we do this three times over. 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 in treat the tons of skins using numerous chemical products and wearing only gloves for protection.

agency 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 and what i.

sherman 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 a turner is considered a lucky break. the main problem in the tannery is the smell. that it makes us sick blackens and it's 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 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 a style. that i define 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 faint. i had the noise of the machines pounding in my head until it would burst on its own ask. what is it that when 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 she's been working in a town referred to lose on a good months she can earn forty euros i can't let. her go down this is my mother's house.

i was a kid then and this is my daughter. rosa post three year old daughter. it was done and then i got more. get you know what. i. did. back then 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 they should unite i never get any holidays and if i miss half a day they counted as a full day i don't use i'm sick it's the same they count me up sent one down and so i have to go to work and even when i'm ill. i've never like i've been otherwise i'll have no money left at the end of the month. my money back because. the judge will let

a man. sherman spends ten euros on her rent and for this price she gets one tiny room in which to house the whole family. to the family who was like the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents dependent on the lives of industry. do not bet the fortune i never get a pay rise. down i asked for one in january but nothing happened they said to be happy with what i had or leave money. shot after paying my rent and giving some money to my parents there's almost nothing left that does a good rap if i had a better salary i could save some money but it's impossible right now. to where we're human i need money to bring up my daughter and send her to school but there's no one to show you do how can i just hate her properly without money to get them i'm sure of the others even question i've 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. what time did you get back home. at five and you left because i went to the fish market. one 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. me how do you think i'm going to go to work at eight. little one preparing dinner. god. thank. you.

i never wake up i don't get out now that. i shan't. let it go we have no electricity and no gas here so it's difficult to cook but i push up that's going to send it to. hide like i'm more comfortable in cleaner life. i keep cleaning but everything gets dirty so quickly and i had to get. we live with the stink of the canneries. we have every kind of problem here. nobody but we can't afford to go anywhere else so i have to stay in this disgusting environment going on resume what i thought it was but that i guess. i. never. thought much of 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 tell. me my husband pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time i don't mind then his that's why i have to work a duty. was a little guy. the western companies were operating there you know none of those prophets of. the populations have never had a share in the. natural trade with china from china i do believe it

must play. essential role. rice of africa yes the chinese have benefit from but this is a fair trade. mission and free credit take should be free in school or judges free. range means free. three stooges free. download free blog videos. free media. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. or a factual standard of living.

is going to. come. out that i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me that i had to shut down my dad or not but dad

. this morning i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well look on sunday about the boss was unhappy about that he got angry with me i know you 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 the work his feet and hands are eaten away by the chemical products used throughout the turning process these products so 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. that.

proximately three hundred products are necessary to soften and die the skins ammonium acids wrestling fans a sea 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 in. my house e.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. it's no problem that matters because i've just used chemicals. that can be met when is

a few doctors working in his area bag. or his liver. to the other feet where do you think you have that you are going. to fix the colors on the skins the work is use mercury huge quantities are used for blue and black this process has been outlawed in france for twenty years because mercury permeates the body and contaminates all the vital organs. are still in the lead. these. days.

in two thousand and ten a takes when is a country so called model tanneries three work is done and ten was seriously injured in an explosion caused by an error in the 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. 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 think one of the pocket until one of the 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 that a union or union has put forward peaceful solutions. that they show no interest in not to go around with i think with the tight ship they're going on with us 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 work version of the world get up and fight the most obnoxious the more almost all of us are sick to 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'd like. that's why every day here at work is die from weather 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 hundreds were arrested. a month from the leather industry that is not a risk to health among. national we want the bosses to respect the employment and health legislation of this country you know because she doesn't for the money come in total by ignoring the law they make bigger profits lobbying the government.

was. does allow i do this to protect her from evil. ones or later the later not the legen but. my daughter is three but she still can't walk properly there are now. she has trouble eating and falls over a lot. and i think she still can't touch that one of allah now she's very weak and her health is very fragile here and there i'm gonna do that but i can only afford to feed her rice and biscuits right back ok financially independent. we need a cost. and the. chairman has no health protection the only way she can obtain health care is at the same sold

dispensary which also is free consultations. the aoa. 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 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 man arose so debilitated. their body little suffering from part problems and gastritis. can not simply. fish shamming also worries for her daughter who is not growing well i'm ready for. a visit where is your child while you are working mater she stays of my little brother. i'm here for the last twenty years right home to sleep. maybe they're going to slow me down your doom from should be coming. you believe. they're going to be.

in his own bag no one this. time 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. please see your first time you get. here you can. live here i'm coming from long sleeve. dollars. i don't feel any better. but if you being the one you sure. don't see. this team going down everybody's. 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.

let them get here there's some terrible smells put out by what can we do to look after them i wonder 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. and. there but there is no work no food and in the winter. of the dish. that happens. every year eight hundred thousand people leave so infertile learned. to crowd into hazari 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 ghost by water in two thousand and five and i understand that. we had to come here yeah because the river overflowed that one of them and house was washed away. so i. don't think i. didn't my parents have nowhere else to live so they stay here with us. and i didn't know what is your but i'm also from boulder 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 yet. among friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. sometimes you know you have this in the i do that all of the listening and then you had to attend the. mike i think. for line and for the mantle for this and a half i'm going to. get the name in the business. then get my camera it's your mother who works instead of your father and you need me. to upload. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you

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