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Cotton Traders faces Boycott over Burma Links
The Burma Campaign UK today called on Cotton Traders to stop sourcing clothes from Burma, or face a boycott campaign…Clothing exports are an important source of income for Burma’s brutal military dictatorship. Burmese trade unions have called on companies not to source clothing from Burma, as the clothing exports help to fund the dictatorship...More than 130 major high street clothing retailers, including M&S, Next, ASDA [part of Wal-Mart], H&M, Debenhams, House of Fraser and BHS, have policies not to source from Burma...Johnny Chatterton, Campaigns Officer at the Burma Campaign UK [said] “Customers of Cotton Traders will be shocked to hear they are involved with this brutal dictatorship.”