India
Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.
Around the world, fashion’s mostly female labor force are grappling with working conditions made increasingly unbearable and unhealthy by climate change.
The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies
Women working on India’s sugarcane farms are having expensive and medically unnecessary hysterectomies so they can work uninterrupted – a practice that keeps sugar flowing to Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury, but leaves its victims with long-term health problems and debts they can’t pay.