it's just common sense obviously it is best to fight the causes of illegal immigration rather than asking for id in moscow subways but they have to do something so i guess id checks are here to stay but there's a big difference between looking at someone's passport and doing stop and frisk or involuntary blood and urine tests that is what immigration control goes over the line but that's just my opinion. i. think 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 leather bags to be labeled made in bangladesh. by my own business and how did they get up in. the etc very happy to buy cheap led to projects that don't include i made this and if we buy this

coming from the totally i know they followed the health crisis. how enablers i being exposed to. 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 suburbs the capital dhaka around three hundred ten there 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. it. was. the 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 avatar's all over the country to be stored in this hangar. goat in cowskin 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 and in but then again there was. a large proportion of the letter 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. sherman 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. 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 eats away at our skin. i don't know but people

like me have no other choice than 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. and you've got to find it takes away my appetite. if 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 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 town reset to use on a good months she can earn forty euros i can let. her 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 know then i don't want. to get you know what. i've. been. 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 you know i never get any holidays and if i miss half a day to day counted as a full day dad i don't know if i'm sick it's the same they count me out sent one down and so i have to go to work even when i'm ill. and otherwise i'll have no money left at the end of the month. my money back was 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. can look. like her the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents are dependent on the leisure industry. you know better than a porsche and 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 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 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 that there's no one to show you do how can i educate her properly without money to get them i'm sure of a god is 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 know because i went to the fish market. time should leave for work at noon i caught a cold i didn't feel well i must write it down 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 last time that it go 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

one day i had to get. we live with the stink of the tanneries. we have every kind of problem here. go by 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 get. over it. thank you 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 don't. need my husband

pulls rickshaws back but he only works part time i don't want in his that's why i have to work at sea. was a little guy. god i. live .

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that i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me that you should and that you're not my dad. i got this morning i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well he doesn't 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 back 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 necessary to soften and the skins ammonium acids saline venza ceo's old crow mates hydrogen sulfide and me. inflammable explosive and corrosive they use requires training the workers never receive. because we use all the derivatives of potassium in. my house and ammonium. when we rinse the skins we use lots of acids. and we put them in the drums it 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 it's no problem that matters because i've just used chemicals. that. one is a few doctors working in his area bag. it you know. his liver evolution. to the other feet where do you want to do your go. to fix the colors on the skins the work is use mercury huge quantities a used for blue and black this process has been outlawed in france for twenty years because mercury permeates the body and contaminates all the vital organs. in their union will you stop chicken little philip. reeves. 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 one of 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 their union our union has put forward peaceful solutions. that they show no interest in. i think with a tight ship they go on and on with us so we have no other choice than to revolt that 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 more almost all of us are sick tonight we're going to the bosses have never taken any health measures but what a night they don't want doctors in the factories caring for the workers but i 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 fifty were injured and hundreds were arrested. i'm not sure from 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 see because it doesn't for the money come in total by ignoring the law they make bigger profits lobbying

got on. as it does allow i do this to protect her from evil. than sen the nation i don't like going but. my daughter is three but she still can't walk properly there are not going to night 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 here and there are going to do that but i can only afford to feed her rice and biscuits right back ok financially independent i.

need a car. has no health protection the only way she can obtain health care is that the some sole dispensary which also is free consultations. 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 were six months i've gradually been feeling worse and worse the more i work out the weaker i get. where i 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. receive it is often have respiratory complications during the men are also 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 coming from. a visit where is your child while you are working better she stays of my little brother. i'm here for the last twenty years right now i'm just. going to say any

time you're doomed from the coming. years believe it 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 shellman and her family have no other choice than to endure the working conditions and to live in the sun breathable environment if you. please see your face down. here you can. hear i'm coming from long sleeve. i don't feel any better. but if you take the one you should. see. there's going to be.

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. sun good little here there is some terrible smell it's put out but what can we do a little bit i wouldn't 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 so infertile learned. 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 and ghost by water in two thousand and five and i understand that. we had to come here yeah because the river overflowed better than the house was washed away. so. even having a little thing i. didn't my parents have nowhere else to live so they stay here with us. we did actually get the on the plate and then i gave it to you know 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 yet. among sherman's friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. survive now you have. all of it and that is that it's. ok for mine i'm for the man for this and. yet it. is not. my family it's your mother who works instead of your father and you hate me . that.

we'll fight against me. it's ok james. do you really. expect some of the toughest training. for the rest of the cup to keep. going on see. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that's. the genetic anymore the right products are pretty cool. there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering

when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in the most crap i don't believe that. for and the free. enterprise money market is profit that's. for sure. golden rice barkeep. it's on the. twenty three days. through. relayed by people who are sixty five thousand. in

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