INDIA: Human rights trial hears garment worker woes
By Leonie Barrie | 23 November 2012
Around 250 Indian garment workers from Bangalore, Gurgaon and Tirupur have attended a tribunal event being held this week to talk about poverty pay, harassment and abuse in factories that make clothes for Western brands and retailers.
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