Bangladesh: Unsafe work conditions and child labour reported in tanneries supplying leather to western brands, companies respond
A report by Transparentem, a nonprofit group that investigates supply chains, allege that hazardous, heavily polluting tanneries employing child labour… supplied leather to companies that make shoes and handbags for a host of Western brands. The report didn’t say the leather ends up in American and European companies’ products, only that the manufacturers of some […]
Report Examines Grim Bangladesh Leather Trade, Links to West
Hazardous, heavily polluting tanneries, with workers as young as 14, supplied leather to companies that make shoes and handbags for… a host of Western brands, a nonprofit group that investigates supply chains says. The report by New York-based Transparentem, released to The Associated Press on Friday, didn’t say leather from the tanneries ends up in […]
Western Brands Respond to Report on Bangladesh Tanneries
Leather made with child labor and under dangerous, polluted conditions in Bangladesh went to factories that produced goods for major… U.S. and European shoe and handbag brands and companies, according to a report released Friday by New York-based nonprofit Transparentem. Those named in the report generally said they were concerned about the conditions at the […]
