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free. free. old free broadcast flood video for your media projects free video dog harty dot com you. live me live today the european consumer has no way of knowing the origin 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
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leather bags to be labeled made in bangladesh. my own business. because you must. be happy to fight the don't miss it if we. go to the i know there. is that being exposed to. let them. which it.
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was in the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center for letter production that this industry generates over three hundred fifty million euros per year for the country was in has very bad suburbs 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 tanaris sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible i was.
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this. was. all skins arrive like this every day and each one of the factories where in one of the has area back ten or 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 in callsigns arrive coated in salt so as to avoid rapid decay. was what you want age hey i was in the morning we get the deliveries.
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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 and then we wash them i don't know why there was ever going to get there and what we do this three times over and in but then again there was. a large proportion of the litter 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 in the head as workers carry handle scrape and treat the tons of skins using numerous chemical products and wearing only gloves for protection.
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i am cutting the small pieces of skin that had been damaged during washing. sherman is one of the forty thousand working in the 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 law. i'm water
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. and when the water runs over my hands it burns away my skin that's what i. meant 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 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.
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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 a style. 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 counting in my head until it would burst. i was sick for a week. now i'm used to it. and doesn't know how old she is she may be twenty. she's been working in
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a turn resort to use on a good month she can earn forty euros was that last week that. was. a go around this is my mother's house. was a kid 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. did it 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 you know i never get any holidays and if i miss half a day they count it as
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a full day the other night if 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 mill. they were like i don't know why is i have no money left at the end of the month. my money back was in the bag was the judge ill 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. for the kid who was like her the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents are dependent on the leisure industry. it's bad. 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. the child after paying my rent and giving some money to my parents there's almost nothing left that another graft if i had a. her salary i could save some money but it's impossible right now. i need money
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to bring up my daughter and send her to school there's no one to show you how can i just keep her properly without money. 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 he goes to show what 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 cold i mean how do you think i'm going to go to work at eight. little one preparing dinner.
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thank you. i never wake up i don't get up now that. i'm still there are still on the way we have no electricity and no gas here so it's difficult to cook partnership that i'm a cynic to. hide like i'm more comfortable in cleaner life. i keep cleaning but everything gets dirty so quickly one day 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
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this disgusting environment you're going to resonate with i think it was that i'd get. over it. thank you it was a population of twelve million i exist 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 neighbors but it's not drinkable and has to be paid for if you move. chamique my husband pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time i'm not in his that's why i have to work a duty. was a little guy. i'm going to. put the wording of war with syria
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at the last second and the opening of some kind of dialogue with iran it would appear washington's neo cons and armchair generals are falling on hard times ever since the end of the cold war washington has always been in need of an enemy talking to iran certainly is one of their worst nightmares so is there a plan b. wealthy british sign on the sign. that's not on my list for. the markets. it's going to find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report on our. place. it was a. very hard take i. want to get along here is
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a play by patton that had that was that her hair killings. took. place if the people. that 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
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didn't go to work because i didn't feel well as a guy looking back then but 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 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
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acids wrestling fans osiers 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 they're ok there's no problem the batteries because i've just used chemicals. actually met one is a few doctors working in his area bag. it you know. this liver
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evolution if you're going to do it if you. do do you want to do that you are 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 mercury permeates the body and contaminate all the vital organs. are still going to let. you see these. days. in two thousand and ten apex one of the country's so-called model tanneries three
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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. was fifty years now the term is unions representing twenty thousand workers has attempted to improve working conditions for its members but to no avail. what i've. got a lot. 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 without the many
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years of the 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 tight shit going on with the 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 but they're not going to the bosses have never taken any health measures for a night and they 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
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thousand and ten several thousand demonstrators and three died sixty were injured and hundreds were arrested. i'm not sure. the leisure industry that is not a risk to health. and we want the bosses to respect the employment and health legislation of this country you know think because she doesn't have the money i mean in general by ignoring the law they make bigger profits lobbying the government.
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as it doesn't i do this to protect her from evil. that is 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 don't think she still can't talk will of allah now she's very weak and her health is very fragile her mother there are 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 offers free consultations.
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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. where do you work. at the other factory. yeah women working in canneries are often frail. but they suffer from the general infections that very joint pain fever and coughing
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. children want to. receive it is often have respiratory complications. demanded rosso debilitated hardish from their body to the suffering from part problems and gastritis. can not simply. showing also worries for her daughter who is not growing well. if you. visit 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 to see if you live here to see me in the film you're doing the films you going to do you believe if you want to live. in this very bag no one is it. would tell us he is three hundred times higher
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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. there i'm coming from long sleeve. dollars. i don't feel really bad here. but if you take the one you should. see. this thing that i gave you. 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.
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back and get out of here there's some terrible smells better than what can we do. 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. there is not political there is no work no food and in the winter. of a dish. that does happen. every year eight hundred thousand people leave so infertile learned. to crowd into has a very bad and it surrounding area it's. a willing to accept such conditions because the turner is their only hope.
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sharmeen is among these climate refugees she's originally from. 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 that let them in and house was washed away. and i don't know. that i will be again so i. think. now did my parents have nowhere else to live so they stay here with us i shall. tell you that the on the way 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
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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 you know you have. all of that and that is adds up with that the. most i think. the lanham supplemental for this is. going to. get it. is not. my family it's your mother who works instead of your father and you had me. the global. world. series technology innovation all the least of elements from
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