Reflections on the Scope of impact of our Compliance Training midway through the project
Whoah, the past 7 months of coordinating this social compliance evaluation project with our research team I have gained an infinite amount of lifetime lessons. Time has flown by, and this is the first time in months that I’ve found the time to sit down and reflect on what’s happened. We have now gone through [...]
Every single step forward, in reality means a thousand steps back, in trying to implement change in the garment industry
After endless meetings with factory owners, directors and managers of all kinds – everything from spiritual preachers making broad statements that “Happiness, and power is worthless if not shared, this is why I always tell my workers that in the end I am their slave, we are interdependent so need to feel each other and show [...]
Trying to get my head around the jungle and theatre of contradictions that is the garment industry in Bangladesh
After my first three weeks as a project manager with the goal of improving the social labour conditions for female line-operators in the garment industry in Bangladesh by providing them with free training and skills-upgrading to become supervisors and move up the hierarchical gendered ladder of highly exploitative factory work, I have been faced with [...]
Behind the scenes of the garment industry in Bangladesh.. and the challenge of making even a modest change
In the fashion industry, a company selling a T-shirt in the UK for EUR 4.95 may spend only 95 cents on production in Bangladesh, yet it will still see to it that ‘corporate responsibility’ is written large in the headlines of its sustainability reports. How can this be? From a feminist perspective, it is curious [...]
Different Shades of Brown
Skin colour is a touchy subject in the Indian sub-continent. .The fairer the better is the ideology that is frequently promoted. But how did this obsession with lighter skin come about? And what effect does it have on people? The two Artistic Directors of British Asian theatre company Caste Away Arts share their views. Reena [...]
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi: Burmese Nobel Peace Laureate
The release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Nobel Peace laureate and leader of Burma’s non-violent pro-democracy movement who spent a total of 15 years under house arrest in Rangoon has reignited hopes amongst the Burmese population and has revitalized the opposition. Since her release she has made it abundantly clear that democracy is [...]
