i. mean today the european consumer has no way of knowing the origin of the leather he bites. feel terrific. see the 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 european central bank be happy to buy to play the fact that they don't miss it if when i discount from. totally i know they followed the prices. tally blares i being exposed to fly supply . led them to her.

over the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center for let the production. this industry generates over three hundred fifty million euros per year as a country that has very bad suburbs the capital dhaka around three hundred tanneries of field 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 bet it was. that it. was skins arrive like this every day in each one of the factories where in

one of the has a 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 kelso can derive 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 there was. we do this three times over again 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 work is carry handled 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 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 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 the smell this towel. 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 pounding in my head until it would burst. but i did them 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 referred to news on a good months she can earn forty euros i can't let. her

go down this is my. mother's house. was good and this is my daughter. rosa post three year old daughter thank god i don't i don't want. to get you know what. i've. been. 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 regulation and 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 that 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 to the diplomat was the till and that's about that. sherman spends ten euros on her rent and for this price she gets one tiny room in which to house the whole family. can look. like the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents are dependent on the lives of industry. that. do not bet the abortion 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 glad i had the child after paying my rent and giving some money to my parents there's almost nothing left that does a good raft 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 there's no one to

show you did how can i educate her properly without money to get them i'm sure of the others even faster than. 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. time should leave for work at noon i caught a cold i didn't feel well ok i'm not trying to tell 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 the. national guard down there it goes we have no electricity and no gas here so it's difficult to cook but 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 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 resume what

i thought it was but that again. i. thank you so much it was with a population of twelve million to watch and it's 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 don't. need my husband pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time i don't want them his that's why i have to work if he. was a little guy. wealthy british style. right.

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a court of law found alive is a story made for a movie is playing out in real life. i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me that they should and they are not but. this morning i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well he doesn't look i'm venting 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 but how can i work in the state my hands and my feet hurt so much. eleven workers feet and hands are eaten away by the chemical products used throughout the tanning process these products so 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 die the skins ammonium acids wrestling fans are see 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. white house 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. that was one of the few doctors working in his area bag. you know. this liver. to get the other feet where do you want to do we have here we're going. to fix the colors 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 measure. permeates the body and contaminates all the vital organs.

the stuff you can live. with 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. 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 term is unions

representing twenty thousand workers has attempted to improve working conditions for its members to no avail whatever 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 in our union has put forward peaceful solutions. that they show no interest in not only you need to run with i think with the type should i go on i don't want to so we have no other choice than to revolt i'm an adult up i'll not. long live the union strike no. workers unite workers of the world unite workers of the world get up and fight a muscle battle system almost all of us a sick to not 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 demonstrated three died fifty were injured and hundreds were arrested. i'm not sure from the way to the leather industry that is not a risk to health from one of the. national we want the bosses to respect the employment and health legislation of this country you know because she doesn't have

the money given it to know by ignoring the law they make bigger profits lobbying the government. was. i do this to protect her from evil. than to lead the nation i don't like in. my daughter is three but she still can't walk properly they were not looking she has trouble eating. and falls over a lot. i think she still can't top that will of allah now she's very weak and her health is very fragile her and the world i'm not over but i can only afford

to feed her rice and biscuits back ok i'm like yeah we're going to. need a castelli. sharman has no health protection the only way she can obtain health care is at the same soul dispensary which also is free consultations. to a rule was. ninety percent of the of the workers develop an illness as a direct consequence of the 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 it out the other factory. visually career women working in canneries are often frail. they suffer from the general infections that hurry you diaz joins pain fever and coughing. children want to. often have respiratory complications only the men of rows or debilitated hardish with their body little suffering from part problems and gastritis. to me actually. simply. showing also worries for her daughter who is not growing well. how does it where is your child while you are working that

if she stays of my little brother. i'm here for the last twenty years right home just maybe they're going to saving you from your doom from the company. you believe if you want to live. in his own 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't live here you can't. live here i'm coming from long sleeve. dollars. i don't feel really bad here.

but if you take the time you should. see. this guy maybe. 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. here there's some terrible smell it's better but what can we do. i wonder if we had rice you know her belly would worry about it but it can't be our priority today. in the countryside life is peaceful. in other countries there 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 has a very bad and its surrounding area it's. a willing to accept such conditions because the turner is their only hope. sharmeen is among these climate refugees she's originally from. the northern island of bangladesh was engulfed by water in two thousand and five that madison had. to go by and we had to come here yeah because the river overflowed that a lot of them and house was washed away. i will tell. you and having

a little thing i. did my parents of nowhere else to live so they stay here with us . 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. among showman's friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. no you have this in the bible that well as it. is and so. much i think. the line i'm sentimental for this is.

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