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Commentary: Food workers in global supply chains are on the frontline of COVID-19
Author: Oxfam International
"Food workers on the frontline of coronavirus", May 2020...
India: Thousands of tea workers protest over unpaid wages during COVID-19 lockdown
Tens of thousands of tea plantation workers in India’s north-eastern state of Assam staged protests at the end of April 2020, to demand payment of wages during the Coronavirus lockdown. Workers on tea estates throughout the region say they have not re...
Sri Lanka: Tea pickers not exempt from work amid lockdown; struggle as accommodation is overcrowded and unsanitary
Author: Yasmin Gunaratnam, The Guardian
"Soap and solace scarce as Sri Lanka's tea pickers toil on amid lockdown", 24 April 2020...
- Related in-depth areas: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak: Government & business response
Author: Sudhir Roc-Sennett, Vontobel Asset Management, dans l'AGEFI
« Contre le travail forcé: l’approche ESG », 2 mars 2020...
India: Tea worker unions demonstrate and demand for fixed minimum wage as new season begins
Author: Avijit Sinha, The Telegraph
"Tea workers demand fixing of minimum wages and land rights", 25 February 2020...
Bangladesh: Amendments to the 2006 Labour Law required to eliminate bonded labour, dialogue on rights of tea workers concludes
Author: Staff Correspondent, New Age Bangladesh
"Labour law reinforces bonded labour among tea workers: dialogue", 20 December 2019...
So. Africa: Indigenous community to receive share of the sale of rooibos tea after multistakeholder agreement
Author: Brian Browdie, Quartz Africa
"South Africa's Khoisan to get a share of the commercialization of rooibos," 5 November 2019....
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Kenya: Local community seek UN inquiry for alleged historical land injustices where tea farms operate; includes Unilever's comment
Author: AFP
"Kenya community pushes for UN inquiry into tea land theft"...
- Related companies: James Finlay (part of Swire) Unilever
Sri Lanka: Tea estate workers who sustain the country's economy mobilise to fight for fair basic wages
Author: Meena Srinavasan, The Hindu
"A bitter brew: For Sri Lanka’s tea estate workers, fair wage is still elusive" 5 October 2019...
- Related in-depth areas: Sri Lanka