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me today the european consumer has no way of knowing the origin of the leather he bites. feel i think 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 have my own business to get up in. the european central battery happy to buy cheap led to projects that don't include i read this and if we're discussing from the europeans i go to the i know they've followed the health crisis. our leaders are being exposed to far stuff lying. that good stuff. over the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center for let the production of this industry generates over three hundred fifty million euros per year for the country. and has a very bad suburb of the capital dhaka around three hundred time 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 and tanneries sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible i served 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 tons of skins arrive directly from albatross all over

the country to be stored in this hangar. go to encounter skins arrive coated in salt so as to avoid rapid decay. but if 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 that was ever going to get the ocean but 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 and the hez work is carry handled scrape intreat 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 was.

a sham it is one of the forty cells and 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. 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 a town or a is considered

a lucky break. the main problem in the tannery is the smell. that 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 smell this towel. and you've got 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 fainting like so many guy had the noise of the machines town ding in my head until it would burst on a jump and i asked. what is it and 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 but she's been working in a tunnel risa two lives on a good months she can own forty euros i can't let. her go down this is my mother's house. i was a kid and this is my daughter. rosa plus three year old daughter. it

can. be done and then i don't want. you know what. i. did. that was 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 a full day that i don't use i'm sick it's the same they count me up sent one so i have to go to work even when i'm ill. gotten otherwise i'll have no money left at the end of the month. my money back because. the judge will. sharman spends ten euros on her rent and for this price she gets one tiny room in which to house the whole family. like her the

majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents dependent on the leisure industry. is enough as an 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. the child after paying my rent and giving some money to my parents there's almost nothing left to give up but 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 i don't want to show you how can i educate her properly without money to get them i'm sure of the others even cost 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. was ok at.

what time did you get back home. at five and you know i'm late. 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'll never wake up i don't get up now that the. national. pastime let it go we have no electricity and no gas here so it's

difficult to cook but i push out that going to send it to. them it is i'd like a more comfortable and 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. the job out of way but we can't afford to go anywhere else so i have to stay in this disgusting environment going nowhere as i would have thought it was that i'd get. over. it thank you very much if it was a population of twelve million i exist to watch and is a serious problem so she 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 move. chamique my husband pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time i don't mind then his that's why i have to work at sea. was a little guy. that. will include. science technology innovation all the list i'm elements from around russia we've got the future covered. emission free accreditation free in-store chargers free. range ones free risk free studio time free. download

free broadcast plug in video for your media projects a free media dog our t.v. dot com. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question for. yes i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me that you should and they are not but yeah.

i guess this morning i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well he doesn't have to look under the bus 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 saline fins 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 that matters because i've just used chemicals. how we met when is a few doctors working in his area back. if you. use liver

evolution. if you do your feet. if you want to do you want. 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 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 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. 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 the. one of the to be honest conversation and their behavior towards us with the 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 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 they're not going to the bosses have never taken any health measures for 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 the police welcome them with guns and ammunition. in two thousand and ten several thousand demonstrated 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 given it to by ignoring the law they make bigger profits lobbying the government.

thank you as it does allow i do this to protect her from evil like. that as 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 talk to one of allah now she's very weak and her health is very fragile her mother there i don't know that but i can only afford to feed her rice and biscuits right back ok i'm like you know like if i. need a couch telly. and. sherman has no health protection the only way she can obtain health care is at the some soul dispensary which also has 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. where do you work. the other factory. yeah women working in canneries are often frail. they suffer from vaginal infections the hurry you do yeah joint pain fever and

coughing. children want to. finish it often have respiratory complications going to the man and debilitated hardish from their body little suffering from part problems and gastritis. simply. shamming also worries for her daughter who is not growing well i'm coming to. visit where is your child while you're working that's it she stays of my little brother. i'm here for the last twenty years right home to sleep if you leave here to see me in the film you're doing the film to be coming. you believe if you want to. live. in this very bag no one is it. would tell us 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 come. here because. they're. coming from long sleeve. i don't feel really bad here. but if you take the. dogs to see. this guy maybe. 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.

night i can't get out of here there's some terrible smells better than i 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. 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 so on first to learn to. crowd into his every 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. 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 a lot of them and house was washed away. i will. not deny my parents have nowhere else to live so they stay here with us. actually that's the on the bike and i gave it to her what is your 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 showman's friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. sometimes you know you have this idea that well as it. is and i forget the. most i think. the line i'm sentimental for this is. going to be the name in the business. to my family it's your mother who works instead of your father and you had me. the globe. big bucks but. we're going to go digital the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because

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