Ethiopian women at a garment factory at the Hawassa Industrial Park in the country’s southern region.
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In democratic contexts, getting women into work empowers them. In autocracies like Ethiopia’s, this doesn’t hold. We found out why.
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The story of how many Asian garment manufacturers joined this different supply chain during the pandemic – with no help from western retail customers.
There’s even a form of post-traumatic stress disorder linked to repetitive killing: Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress (PITS).
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The hazards are both psychological and physical.
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Rather than requiring companies to ensure a living wage for their global supply chain workforce, the Modern Slavery Act ends up punishing them.