Quiet approach allows US NGO to improve lives of workers in Malaysian factories
A New York-based non-profit organisation that investigates labour and environmental abuses has helped Malaysian factories improve their treatment of migrant… workers. These factories are involved in making items ranging from clothes to shoes for famous western companies like Target, Nike and Fruit of the Loom. The Guardian reported that an 18-month investigation by the NGO, […]
NGO’s softly-softly tactics tackle labor abuses at Malaysia factories
The 18-month investigation unearthed serious abuses at five apparel factories in Malaysia – hundreds of migrant workers had paid illegal… recruitment fees that sometimes exceeded a year’s pay, while four of the factories retained the workers’ passports, turning them into forced laborers unable to quit.
Transparentem’s Ben Skinner: “You may not be interested in transparency, but transparency is interested in you.”
“Here be dragons!” According to lore, that epithet once marked ancient charts of the world’s oceans, a warning from mariners… of the perils of the deepest, darkest seas. Today, that label might well be affixed to global supply chains. As beneficial as globalized production has been to affluent consumers on the retail end of the […]
Toxic Tanneries Forced to Move Pollute New Bangladesh Site
Bangladesh tanneries prepping leather for shoes, belts, wallets and purses are dumping toxic chemicals into a river at a new… industrial complex more than a year after the government shut them down for poisoning a different river and using child labor.
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 […]
