Three years ago on April 24, 2013, the multi-story Rana Plaza building – home to garment factories that supplied clothes for major clothing brands across Europe and North America – collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. More
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Since the brutal crackdowns on Cambodian garment worker protests in January, the media attention has been dominated with stories of the exploitation and violence that these workers, mostly women, face daily. What’s missing are the
Cambodian garment workers make around $80 a month, taking on long hours of overtime in harsh conditions. Now workers across the country are standing up for themselves to demand more – but the fight
Keo Nea, Nuth Sakhorn and Bun Chenda work together at Kaoway factory making sneakers for the German sporting goods company, Puma. On February 20th, 2012, the three women were shot by a powerful government official
More than a month after their factory shut down, Kingsland garment workers remain outside the factory gate to demand their lost severance and wages. If you haven’t seen Part 1 of the Kingsland workers’ story,
Last week, we filmed the above video about the ongoing struggle of Cambodian garment workers at Kingsland garment factory in Phnom Penh. It’s getting a decent chunk of shares online from people around the world who
Nearly 200 Cambodian garment workers are locked in a dispute with Kingsland Garment Cambodia Ltd., a supplier of the global clothing brands Walmart and H&M. The factory owner fled, leaving the workers without jobs
More than 400,000 women work in the garment industry in Cambodia, making clothes for a long list of international clothing brands. Factories and brands occasionally make headlines for substandard working conditions, but the struggle for
Recently, the Swedish TV program “Kalla Fakta,’ aired an investigative documentary about factory conditions for H&M garment workers in Cambodia. The program focused on conditions at M&V International, a factory that employs around 5,000 workers in Cambodia’s
