Revealed: women making clothes for west face sexual abuse -
Female factory workers producing clothing and shoes in Vietnam – many probably for major US and European brands – face systemic sexual harassment and violence at work, the Observer can reveal.
Nearly half (43.1%) of 763 women interviewed in factories in three Vietnamese provinces said they had suffered at least one form of violence and/or harassment in the previous year, according to a study by the Fair Wear Foundation and Care International out on Monday.
The abuse – which ranged from groping and slapping to rape and threats of contract termination – sheds a light on working conditions endured by women in some Vietnamese factories with as many as 20,000 employees, said Dr Jane Pillinger, a gender-based violence expert and author of the study.
“I am shocked that nearly 50% of the women interviewed had experienced some form of violence in the past year, and I’ve been working on this issue for 30 years,” she said. “There’s a significant culture of silence around this, and as a result the numbers are probably even higher: we know from feedback that some women wouldn’t answer the questions in the interviews, perhaps because they feared their responses would somehow get back to their employers or husbands.”
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Today in history: Vilma Espín born April 7, 1930.
Espín was a leader in the Cuban revolution and in the women’s movement in Cuba. She was part of the July 26 Movement that overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959. After the revolution, Espín was a founder of the Federation of Cuban Women in 1960 and was its leader until she died in 2007.
She headed Cuba’s delegations to many international women’s Congresses. She was a member of the National Assembly and the Council of State of Cuba, and also of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba. She was given the honorary title of Hero of the Republic of Cuba, and was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize.
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