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Janhavi Dave: “We need to empower home-based workers by investing in more co-operatives. Unity builds strength and resilience”

27th July 2020 Equal Times 0

South Asia is home to over 50 million home-based workers, most of whom are women. From agarbhatti incense stick rollers in India to piecework garment workers in Sri […]

Commitment or marketing: is there really an ethical awakening in the fashion industry?

20th July 2020 Equal Times 0

In February 2019, Spain’s fashion multinational Inditex put a new sweatshirt on the market with a promising slogan. Printed, in capital letters on a black […]

Sowing seeds of resistance: the fight for food sovereignty in Palestine

23rd July 2019 Equal Times 0

This article is accompanied by a mini-documentary. Click here to watch. Food sovereignty in Palestine is inextricably linked to the fight for self-determination. Land dispossession in […]

Women farm workers achieve justice on the job in Morocco

11th March 2019 Equal Times 0

Wrapped in a warm pink headscarf and thick layers of sweaters and shirts, Nezha Chafik, a farm worker in Morocco, bends as she walks between […]

African migrants survive in ‘The Cemetery’ to work in the fields and greenhouses of Andalucía

5th March 2019 Equal Times 0

Sidy and Mamadou are two of approximately 800 people who live in El Cementerio (The Cemetery) – a migrant squatter camp of chabolas, or shacks, abutting […]

From the fields of San Quintin to the supermarkets of North America: Mexican farmworkers call for solidarity

12th December 2018 Equal Times 0

They produce nearly half the fruit and vegetables eaten every year in the United States, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Mexican farm workers, […]

Indonesia’s textile workers face a tough battle for severance pay

14th March 2018 Equal Times 0

Low wages and suppression of the trade union remains is the biggest challenge in the textile sector in Indonesia even though it is one of the biggest in the world with exports to US, Japan and Turkey.

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