Women who are garment workers for well-known European labels face frequent gender-based violent harassment, caste-based discrimination, wage theft, forced termination, and other forms of labor and human rights violations. The laws simply don’t help.
Pari Saikia is an independent human trafficking journalist and documentarian from New Delhi, India. Pari has been reporting on human trafficking, forced migration, refugees, slavery, labour rights, and more from India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Italy, Germany and Portugal for various media platforms like BIRN, Vice World News, VICE Italia, The Guardian, The Wire, PARI Network, The OZY and Tehelka.
Women who are garment workers for well-known European labels face frequent gender-based violent harassment, caste-based discrimination, wage theft, forced termination, and other forms of labor and human rights violations. The laws simply don’t help.