i. mean today the european consumer has no way of knowing the all region of the leather he bites. a feel. thing a number of e.u. member states have deed localized production and see no reason for shoes and leather bags to be labeled made in bangladesh.

i am my own business and the european currency unless. the etc very happy to buy cheap led to projects that don't include my this that if we buy this kind from you totally i know they followed the head prices. tally blares that being exposed to fly supply and lead 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 as

a country that has very bad suburb of the capital dhaka around three hundred turner is 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 and tanner is sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible i bet it was. that it. was 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 to encounter spins 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 drive them out with a was next after applying the chemicals we place them in the tanning drums and then we wash them i don't know why that was ever going to get there what did we do this three times over it in that it 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 facts and the hez workers carry handled scrape and 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 was. a sham 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 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 the smell this towel. that had 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 faint like so many guy had the noise of the machines town ding in my head until it would burst. but at the fracture 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 turn resort 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 when. you get back and that there is nothing at the factory they are no medical support. and that i have no friends and there are no safety regulation you know when i start every day at eight am and there's no paid overtime they should deny i never get any holidays and if i miss half a day they count it as a full day i don't use i'm sick it's the same they count me up sent one so i have to go to work and even when i'm ill. i don't like either wise i have no money left at the end of the month. my money back there's no doubt that the judge will decide that. sherman spends ten euros on her rent and for this price she gets one

tiny room in which to house the whole family. who was like the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents dependent on the laws of industry. is enough as an 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 money god i had the child 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 worry among i need money to bring up my daughter and send her to school that there's i don't want to show you how can i educate her properly without money to get them i'm sure of the other one question i've had a hard life will be the same for my kids. shamming 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. for work at noon i caught a cold i didn't feel well ok i miss i don't know 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. thank. you. i never wake up i don't get up now that was.

the first time that it we have no electricity and no gas here so it's difficult to cook but worship that from a semi to. hide like a more comfortable and 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. that go by nobody but we can't afford to go anywhere else so i have to stay in this disgusting environment going all resonate with it that it was that i guess. i. never. thought much of it was

a population of twelve million i exist to watch and is a serious problem so if you 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 it you move. chamique my husband pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time i'm not then his that's why i have to work because he. was a little guy. exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman got killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about

polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were off taking they could get what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. for a factual standard of living.

put it on your cultural phenomena like the bank holiday face i think sometimes people. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure.

we'll have the. science technology innovation all the least developed from around russia we've got the future covered. now i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me that you should have made a lot but yeah. i get this morning i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well he doesn't have to look and find out 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 mother 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 get my hands there i k. there's no problem that matters because i've just used chemicals. actually mit one is a few doctors working in his area bag. eat. this liver if you lose you. then your feet. if you do you are going. to fix the colors on the skins the workers use mercury huge quantities they used for blue and for black this process has been outlawed in france for twenty years because mercury permeates the body and contaminate all the vital organs.

are still 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 era 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 term is union

representing twenty thousand workers has attempted to improve working conditions for its members but to no avail. one of the pocket of that. one of the to be honest conversation and their behavior towards us. 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 based all solutions. that they show no interest in. you need to 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 them and it's all tied 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 tonight we're going to the bosses have never taken any health measures for

a night and i don't want doctors in the factories caring for the workers you know but i'm 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 to police welcome them with guns and ammunition. in two thousand and ten several thousand demonstrators and three died sixty were injured and hundreds were arrested. i'm not sure from the way to my leather industry that is not a risk to health from my local. 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 law by ignoring the law they 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 top that one of allah now she's very weak and her health is very fragile her mother down a little bit but i can only afford to feed her rice and biscuits right back ok i'm

like you know we're going to. 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 also is 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 of the six months i've gradually been feeling worse and worse the more i work out the weaker i get. when you work. at the other factory. yeah women working in can there is a rough and frail. did they suffer from the general infections picture on their very joint pain fever and coughing. children want to. please evacuate often have respiratory complications in the morning this is the man and debilitated. the body was suffering from part problems and gastritis. was simply. showing also worries for her daughter who is not growing well i'm coming to. visit where is your child while you are working that if she stays up my little brother.

i'm here for the last twenty years to write home to see if you live here to see me in the film you're doing the pollution. coming here you believe if you want to live. in this very bag no one is. tight 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 can. live here you can live. here i'm coming from long sleeve. i don't feel any better. but if you take the.

dogs to see. this guy. recently and despite her age sherman's mother was false. to go back to work in an open air factory in the center of the slum. can't get out of here there are some terrible smells better than what can we do we're going to try to go back i don't know if we had rice in our belly what would worry about it but it can't be our priority today and. in the countryside life is peaceful. in a country where there is not political there is no work no food and in the winter we. have

a dish. that does happen. every year eight hundred thousand people leave so infertile learned. to crowd into his airy bag and its surrounding area its. 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 that madison and. you can buy 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. but i will tell. you that i know little thing that we did not did my

parents have nowhere else to live so they stay here with us. did they tell you that the army like 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 yes. among sherman's friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. survives. of this in the bible well as a good reason and that is that so. much i think that the lanham set up the mantle for this is an ethical dilemma. yet it. is not it out that

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