Explainer: Fatal fires in Bangladesh
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Tag: garment workers
Artist Zyma Amien Celebrates the Art of Garment Workers
“Once I was in art school, I looked back and realised that I had been living in a home of artists my whole life,” says Zyma Amien, “we didn’t become artists – we always were artists.” Zyma was 46 years...
How we can use the law to make the fashion industry fairer to women and Earth
In March 1911, in a garment factory in Manhattan, over 100 people, mostly Jewish and Italian women migrants, some as young as 14, were trapped inside and died as the factory burnt to the floor. Management had locked the doors....