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Garment workers

July 2024

  • A man wearing a tuxedo stands on a red carpet. Behind him three dancers in saris kneel, smiling and making gestures with their arms, and behind them a group of people smile and throw rose petals.

    Opinion
    What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women’s wellbeing? Everything

    Shrayana Bhattacharya
    In India being a female fan of Shah Rukh Khan is not just about a love of film – it’s a form of resistance against restrictive gender norms

February 2024

  • People wait in line against a wall to talk to a woman with a notebook and lanyard

    The future of work
    Garment workers have lost out on $4bn of severance pay, says rights group

    The employees, who made clothes for western clothing brands, were legally entitled to the money after losing their jobs

January 2024

  • Hand of a woman using a sewing machine in a factory

    ‘She agreed to work for £5 an hour’: the desperate plight of many Leicester garment workers

  • A 'made in Mauritius' garment label

    Rights and freedom
    Fashion firms agree to compensate garment workers in Mauritius

December 2023

  • British Textile Biennial in Blackburn<br>epa10887447 Artist Jeremy Hutchison wearing a 'fast-fashion zombie' costume made of used garments from second-hand clothing markets in West Africa, walks around the town center as part of the British Textile Biennial in Blackburn, Britain, 28 September 2023. The third edition of the British Textile Biennial highlights creative works in textiles against the backdrop of the former cotton powerhouse of Lancashire. EPA/ADAM VAUGHAN

    ‘Textile zombie’ v fossil fashion: the battle to clean up the clothing industry in 2023

  • A middle-aged woman in a shalwar kameez [trousers and tunic] standing outside a corrugated iron-walled shack. A clay oven is in the gloomy interior

    Rights and freedom
    Woman making Christmas jumpers for UK turns to sex work to pay bills

November 2023

  • Police holding batons run towards a crowd of people standing by a roadside in Bangladesh

    Rights and freedom
    Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay face brutal violence and threats

    Workers describe hands and arms being targeted in ‘merciless’ beatings as protests over low wages turn increasingly violent in Dhaka
  • Bangladeshi security personnel charge to disperse garment workers protesting in Gazipur on 9 November 2023, after the Minimum Wage Board authority declared the minimum wage of 12,500 taka (£92) for garment workers.

    Rights and freedom
    Bangladeshi woman killed after police open fire on protesting garment workers

    Employees making clothes for fast-fashion brands have been demonstrating against a new minimum salary of £92 a month
  • Bangladeshi garment workers gather during a protest demanding an increase in their wages at Mirpur in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 31 October.

    Rights and freedom
    Workers for fast fashion brands fear starvation as they fight for higher wages

    Garment workers in Bangladesh making clothes for UK brands say plans to increase their pay to £92 a month is not enough to survive

September 2023

  • Smiling woman in a colourful sari.

    Fashion’s unseen stories: the homeworkers of Tirupur – in pictures

    Homeworkers in an all-female cooperative in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu – known as India’s knitwear capital – took part in a photography project where they were given cameras to document their work. All the women belong to the Anukatham union, which is fighting for recognition by the Tamil Nadu government, as well as better wages and conditions

August 2023

  • An H&amp;M logotype is seen at a shop in Stockholm

    H&M says it will ‘phase out’ sourcing from Myanmar suppliers

    Fashion retailer is latest in sector to cut ties as reports of labour abuses in country’s garment factories increase

June 2023

  • Shahidul Islam

    The future of work
    Bangladeshi labour leader beaten to death while trying to resolve dispute

    Shahidul Islam died in an assault on Sunday in Dhaka after meeting garment factory employees fighting for unpaid salaries

March 2023

  • Muriel Akouewanou working in a textile factory

    Cutting its cloth: can a new industrial revolution transform Benin’s economy?

    The west African country, a leading cotton producer, is moving into processing finished goods, seen as a route to prosperity

February 2023

  • A female worker inspects the fabric for quality at a garment factory in Faisalabad.

    Opinion
    Pakistan’s textile industry is in crisis – and women are bearing the brunt of its decline

    Parveen Latif Ansari
    The threat of permanently lost jobs means many are frightened to speak up over basic labour rights. My organisation helps women fight for their jobs – and decent conditions

September 2022

  • A protest in front of the Levi's store in New York City’s Times Square asked the company to sign an agreement prioritizing the safety of garment workers in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

    ‘Give workers an equal seat’: pressure builds for Levi’s to protect factory employees

    Activists say that the company’s own audits have been ineffective and workers receive inadequate safety protections

June 2022

  • A garment workers counts facemasks for packing.

    Rights and freedom
    Sex for a job: the scandal of Haiti’s exploited US garment workers

  • The Bismillah factory in Faisalabad exclusively made clothes for Missguided. Unpaid workers there say they are unable to pay for food.

    Rights and freedom
    Pakistani garment workers left destitute and starving after Missguided collapse

May 2022

  • Thai garment workers protesting

    Victoria’s Secret pays sacked Thai workers $8.3m in ‘wage theft’ settlement

    The sacked garment workers had fought for fair compensation since the factory closed in March 2021
  • Thivya Rakini, president of Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union in Dindigul city.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘To survive, I must appear fearless’: the former nun helping India’s garment workers fight sexual violence

    Sexual harassment and assault are rife in the factories that supply some of the world’s leading fashion brands. In Tamil Nadu, union leader Thiyva Rakini is trying to change that
  • Muthulakshmi and Kathiravel, parents of Jayasre Kathiravel, stand besides the portrait of her daughter Jayasre at there residence on the outskirts of Dindigul city in Tamil nadu state, April 21, 2022. Photo: Sivaram V for The Guardian

    Rights and freedom
    Murder, rape and abuse in Asia’s factories: the true price of fast fashion

    Jeyasre Kathiravel’s murder exposed the epidemic of abuse facing garment workers. But will a groundbreaking new agreement improve their lot?
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