An international IUF fact-finding team has been denied access to an Assam plantation to investigate the recent deaths of three workers. The plantation is owned by Amalgamated Plantations in which Tata Global Beverages is the major shareholder. The 930 hectare Powai estate has one of the world’s largest tea-processing factories and employs some 1,800 permanent [...]
Workers from a West Bengal tea plantation who participated in a protest last year against the abusive treatment of a pregnant 22 year-old tea garden worker could face prison sentences of up to 7 years, if India’s powerful Tata Group has its way. Mrs. Arti Oraon, tea plucker who collapsed after being forced to work [...]
Karmojibi Nari, a women’s rights organisation and one of CAW’s member groups in Bangladesh, yesterday demanded that the government formulate a law on agricultural labour immediately to ensure the rights of women workers in this sector. Addressing a rally at Muktangon in the city, the leaders of the organisation also called for declaring Tk 5,000 as [...]
Oil palm plantation and rubber estate workers today gathered in Parliament angry at Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Bernard Dompok’s statement that they were above the poverty line. “It is a blatant lie and it has been going on for a long time… the fact is misleading and confusing,” slammed M Sugumaran, a coordinator for [...]
Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate which makes the world famous Tetley teas, has taken 6,500 people hostage through hunger. The hostages are nearly 1,000 tea plantation workers and their families on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India. Permanently living on the edge of hunger, the workers and their dependants are being pushed [...]
By Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development Experiences of Women Protecting their Communities and Human Rights Against Corporate Mining is a product of the Food Over Gold campaign launched in 2005 as part of APWLD’s food sovereignty programme. The book contains the results of mining fact-finding missions, fora where the issue of women [...]
