Fast fashion trends keep clothes flying off the racks in wealthy countries and sewing machines humming in developing ones. Across Asia, many women garment workers are young women who migrate from rural areas to work in these factories. Isolated from families and traditional support networks, these young women are vulnerable to violence at work and in places they live, and often do not know their rights. Our Initiative to End Gender-Based Violence in the Garment Industry, in partnership with C&A Foundation and NoVo Foundation, supports women-led groups in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam, and India to improve safety and leadership of women garment workers. The Shojag Coalition in Bangladesh, named after the Bangla word for “awaken,” consists of five organizations: Naripokkho, Christian Aid, BRAC, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and SNV. The coalition is working together to reduce gender-based violence in the garment industry by raising awareness, strengthening the capacity of accountable private and public bodies, protecting the rights and legal entitlements of female workers, and engaging factories towards promoting systemic changes across the garment sector. The Shojag Coalition produced this video to show the conditions that women garment workers face – and to show the advocacy women-led groups are creating to improve the lives of garment workers in Bangladesh. Join us and take action to end gender-based violence in the garment industry by donating today: https://act.globalfundforwomen.org/garment-workers

The documentary of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) illustrates an impressive and unfiltered picture within and surrounding the garment industry in Cambodia. The economic downturn from 2008/2009 through the prism of workers and their families, unionists, small vendors surrounding the factories and a female Cambodian manager. This documentary contains: Short documentary – A Day at the Factory Short documentary – A Day Outside the Factory Short documentary – A Day Off From the Factory Short documentary – A Weekend with the Manager Cambodia´s Garment Industry Intro: http://youtu.be/2okqPVS0viA Outro: http://youtu.be/Vddl7-A4DSM http://www.fes-asia.org/ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) jointly produced these short documentary films with the „Better Factories Cambodia“-Programme of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Phnom Penh-based cultural center Meta House and M.E.T.A. Film School.

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Huge heaps of used and unsold clothes have piled up in the Atacama desert in Chile in recent years. A symbol of the hidden cost of fast fashion, they show the industry’s disastrous environmental impact. Manuela Olivos lives in a hut surrounded by mountains of discarded clothes. She makes a living from this vast, fast-fashion dumping ground in the Atacama desert in northern Chile, collecting anything that she can sell. Much of it is unsold clothing from more economically developed countries, where the demands of the fast fashion industry have resulted in chronic over-production. The garments that end up here are usually made of synthetic fabrics that are non-biodegradable. The desert dumping ground is an embarrassment to the authorities in nearby Alto Hospicio. Edgar Ortega works in the city’s environmental department, and says he’s powerless to do anything about it. New shipments of used clothing arrive at the dumping ground every week. "The business with used clothing is highly lucrative for dealers in the free trade zone of Iquique, who import secondhand textiles," he says. "But only for them. It’s detrimental to the wider community." Iquique, the provincial capital, used to be economically depressed. But then the Chilean government built a container port here and created the free trade zone known as "Zofri". 59,000 tonnes of used clothes are shipped here every year. According to estimates, up to 40 % of that is dumped - and ends up in the desert. Many of the people who sift through the mountains of discarded clothes are refugees from Venezuela. They’re looking for clothes they can wear themselves and for anything they can sell. We meet André and his family, who are braving the midday heat on their way to Iquique, where they hope to find work. They still have another 200 kilometers to go and are exhausted. Like many other Venezuelan refugees, they could well end up making a living from the mountains of textiles in the Atacama’s desert’s cemetery for used clothes. #documentary #dwdocumentary #fastfashion ______ DW Documentary gives you knowledge beyond the headlines. Watch top documentaries from German broadcasters and international production companies. Meet intriguing people, travel to distant lands, get a look behind the complexities of daily life and build a deeper understanding of current affairs and global events. Subscribe and explore the world around you with DW Documentary. Subscribe to: ⮞ DW Documentary (English): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocumentary ⮞ DW Documental (Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocumental ⮞ DW Documentary وثائقية دي دبليو (Arabic): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocarabia ⮞ DW Doku (German): https://www.youtube.com/dwdoku ⮞ DW Documentary हिन्दी (Hindi): https://www.youtube.com/dwdochindi For more visit: http://www.dw.com/en/tv/docfilm/s-3610 Follow DW Documentary on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwdocumentary/ Follow DW Documental on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwdocumental We kindly ask viewers to read and stick to the DW netiquette policy on our channel: https://p.dw.com/p/MF1G

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Rita Lemoine jest stałą klientką paryskich butików. Pewnego razu jej wybór padł na szykowne botki. Ich cena opiewała na 150 euro, ale prawdziwy koszt zakupu okazał się znacznie wyższy. "Włożyłam je dwa razy, podrażniły mi skórę na stopach" - skarży się Francuzka. "Po trzecim razie wystąpił obrzęk. Swędziało tak bardzo, że nie mogłam zasnąć. Poszłam do lekarza, ale nie wiedział, co mi dolega. Nie spotkał się wcześniej z czymś podobnym". Dopiero w szpitalu zidentyfikowano przyczyny nieznośnych dolegliwości. Wszystkiemu winny okazał się dimetylofumaran, środek grzybobójczy zakazany w Europie, a jednak wykorzystany do konserwacji kupionych przez kobietę butów. Przypadek Rity Lemoine nie należy do rzadkich. W samej Francji rocznie setki osób zgłaszają się do szpitali z podobnymi problemami. Dimetylofumaran jest tylko jednym z toksycznych środków obecnych w powszechnie dostępnej odzieży. Metale ciężkie, formaldehyd, żywica syntetyczna, chlor to kolejne na liście. Choć zabronione w Europie, trujące chemikalia używane są przy produkcji, konserwacji i dystrybucji wielu tekstyliów w krajach rozwijających się. Wśród miejscowych robotników krwawe żniwo zbierają pestycydy wykorzystywane w uprawie bawełny w Indiach, sztuczne barwniki z Chin i Bangladeszu, czy związki chloru, którymi wypełnia się wysyłane na Zachód kontenery. Jako nabywcy dżinsów czy skórzanych butów możemy być wystawieni na działanie wyniszczającej chemii. Szacuje się, że tylko 1% odzieży wyprodukowany jest z w pełni naturalnych surowców. Co z resztą? Toksyczna odzież będzie wciąż chętnie kupowana z jednego powodu - jest tania. Tyle, że prawdziwą jej ceną może się okazać nasze zdrowie.

Reportaż zrealizowany w 2015 r. w Kambodży przez Jana Mikrutę opowiada o trudnej sytuacji pracowników tamtejszego przemysłu odzieżowego. Materiał był emitowany w telewizji w ramach programu To Był Dzień na Świecie. Reportaż stanowi część cyklu Ślady Prawdy, który powstał dzięki współpracy Telewizji Polsat, Fundacji HumanDoc i Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych, które zapewniło jego finansowanie w ramach programu polskiej współpracy rozwojowej "polska pomoc".

The True Cost: Who Pays the Real Price for YOUR Clothes | Investigative Documentary from 2015 This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing? Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums, and featuring interviews with the world’s leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth and Vandana Shiva, The True Cost is an unprecedented project that invites us to an eye-opening journey around the world and into the lives of the many people and places behind our clothes. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Subscribe to ENDEVR for free: https://bit.ly/3e9YRRG Join the club and become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/freedocumentary Facebook: https://bit.ly/2QfRxbG Twitter: https://bit.ly/2QlwRiI ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #FreeDocumentary #ENDEVR #TheTrueCost ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ENDEVR explains the world we live in through high-class documentaries, special investigations, explainer videos, and animations. We cover topics related to business, economics, geopolitics, social issues, and everything in between that we think is interesting.