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No Sweat Meeting at Anarchist Bookfair
Dodgy Development - How Department for International Development cash is developing profits at the expense of the poor in India.
Film and discussion, hosted by No Sweat:
No Sweat Brighton Film Showing: Under the carpet
A short film about child carpet workers in Bihar, India.
At the Cowley Club, London Road, Brighton. 7-9pm. Wed April 30.
Indian court cases against Dutch and Indian organisations withdrawn
Agreement reached between Clean Clothes Campaign / India Committee of the Netherlands and Indian clothing manufacturer
Picket G Star - Don't Jail Workers Rights Supporters
No Sweat will be joining an international day of action to protest the international arrest warrants issued on activists from the Clean Clothes Campaign by a key supplier for G Star. Come and Join us at G Star's Covent Garden store from 6pm on Mon Dec 17.
"Child sweatshop shame threatens Gap's ethical image"
An Observer investigation into children making clothes has shocked the retail giant and may cause it to withdraw apparel ordered for Christmas
Gap pulls 'child labour' clothing
Gap: caught out again...
Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and India Committee of the Netherlands
During a state visit to India of the Dutch Queen and several ministers and companies, the Indian Minister of Economic affairs, Shri Kamal Nath, confronted the Dutch delegation with misleading information on the work of the Clean Clothes Campaign and the India Committee of the Netherlands, in relation to the factory FFI in Bangalore. The CCC sent out a pres statement (see below) to rectify the information in the Dutch press.
Indian Gap supplier: another death
Third death in a year at Indian factory that supplies Gap
· Clothing firm tells supplier to investigate conditions
· Worker verbally abused for leave request, union says
Primark and Mothercare accused of sweatshop abuse
Two of Britain's major high street retailers have launched inquiries into allegations that factory workers who make their clothes in India are being paid as little as 13p per hour for a 48-hour week, wages so low the workers claim they sometimes have to rely on government food parcels.
Gurgaon workers' news - Indian sweatshop conditions, resistance documented
Gurgaon Workers' News from the IT capital of India details conditions in sweatshops in the area and provides a detailed rundown of last year's strike wave. Workers explain in their own words the exploitative conditions of their work.
The human cost of cheap high street clothes
Two of Britain's leading retail chains are selling clothing made by child slaves, an Observer investigation reveals today. The exposé raises serious questions about this country's soaring demand for low-cost clothing and has triggered angry calls for retailers to take far greater care in sourcing garments.
Sunday April 22, The Observer
Unilever in India: union fights illegal closure
Help Indian workers by reading their story and sending a protest email...
