a scrap of power control over the events in your neighborhood then you're sure feel like people actually have a lot of power and this could be good for the country but that's just my opinion. i. think i. leave today the european consumer has no way of knowing the all region of the

leather he bites. the feel. thing a number of e.u. member states have deede localized production and see no reason for shoes and leather bags to be labelled made in bangladesh. by my own business and they get up in. the etc very happy to fight to play the projects they don't i miss it if when i discuss. totally i

know they followed the head. telling me blair's i'm being exposed to. lead them to her. because of 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 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 town there 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 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 derive 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 it 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. 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 eternity is considered a lucky break. the main problem in the tannery is the smell. that it makes us sick blackens and it's a way of our skin. color 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 don't know what sometimes the skins are crawling with parasites and smell this towel. at the end 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 a 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 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. was a kid and this is my daughter. rosa post three year old daughter thank god that you know none of them want. to 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 regulation 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 counted as a full day i don't use i'm sick it's the same they count me out sent one 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 that was such a little bit of a hand. 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 kid who was like the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents are dependent on the other industry. that. is enough that the 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 shot after paying my rent and giving some money to my parents there's almost nothing left and there's a good laugh but i had a better salary i could save some money but it's impossible right now. to where were your mum i need money to bring up my daughter and send her to school that there's no one to show the can i educate her properly without money to get them i'm sure of the other one question that. 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. for work at noon i caught a cold i didn't feel well ok i'm not trying to go to work at noon because you can't 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. i'm still there are still out there it goes we have no electricity and no gas here so it's difficult to cook partnership 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. duvall nobody but we can't afford to go anywhere else so i have to stay in this disgusting environment you're going to resonate with i think it was that. i. never. thought that you would with a population of twelve million 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 don't. need my husband pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time i don't mention his that's why i

have to work at sea. was a little girl i know. there's a medium leave us so we leave the baby. by the seat cushions securely play your part of the musical. push use that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politicking only on our team. choose your language. of choice we could know if they still come out. of the piece the consensus can. choose the opinions that degrade to. choose the stories but in time to. choose the access to often.

real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for democracy it's a step forward oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spray. it was a it was not a picture that either the government or b.p.

really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the age you are which. is. that i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me just about to show them a day or not but it is only. right now this morning i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well yesterday about the content 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 much better but how can i work in this state my hands and my feet hurt so much. on. the lives of work his 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 timing factories have no ventilation system. older workers are exposed

to danger but especially those who aren't. direct contact with the chemicals. proximately three hundred products 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. but how c.m.i. 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 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 there's a few doctors working in his area bag. or use liver. we. do know the feet where do you want to do the work. to fix the colors on the skins the workers 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 contaminate all the vital organs.

are still in the gulf unless. you feel me. 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. the fifty years now the term is unions

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 because truth for many years of their union our union has put forward peaceful solutions. that they show no interest in. i think with the tight shit 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 but also some almost all of us are sick to not going to the bosses have never taken any health measures but what

a night and i don't want doctors in the factories caring for the workers but i like that's why every day here it were. because 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 hundreds were arrested. i'm not sure from the 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 because it doesn't for

the money come in total by ignoring the law they make bigger profits lobbying the government. would. i do this to protect her from evil. than to later the nation i don't like and. my daughter is three but she still can't walk properly there are now. she has trouble eating and falls over a lot. 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 are going to do that but i can only

afford to feed her rice and biscuits back ok financially and if any. need. sharman has no health protection the only way she can obtain health care is at the same sole dispensary which also has free consultations. the a.o.l. . ninety percent of the of the workers develop an illness as a direct consequence of the work 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 very joint pain fever and coughing. children want to. finish it is often have respiratory complications only they leave the man arose or debilitated or dishwasher their body was suffering from part problems and gastritis . cannot supply. if sherman 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 live to go to here. seemingly you're doomed from the coming. you believe. in his only bag no one is. 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 enjoy the working conditions and to live in the sun breathable environment if you come from. this is your first time you can. live here you can. live here i'm coming from long sleeve. dollars. i don't feel any better. but if you take the one you sure. don't see. this thing then i

mean people. 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. not at the good little here there's some terrible smells put out by what can we do . 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 well 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 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 and i understand that . we had to come here yeah because the river overflowed better than that and house was washed away. and i don't know. that i will be again so i'm going to have any little thing i. did to my

parents have nowhere else to live so they stay here with us. we did actually that's the on the bike and then i gave it to her 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 showman's friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. sometimes i hear people have this in the bible i do that well as a listener and that is actually the. most i think. the lanham supplemental for this in an effort to. get out of the business that mike

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