'Fast Fashion and Made in Myanmar|Empowerment of women with 95 $? | Shocking! |'

'Fast Fashion and Made in Myanmar|Empowerment of women with 95 $? | Shocking! |'
20:54 Sep 28, 2021
'V27 Fast Fashion and Made in Myanmar  Today, I want to talk about Myanmar’s (former name Burma) garment industry which is leading the country manufactured goods export sectors.  What are the country-specific characteristics of the fast fashion industry’s supply chains and garment factories in Myanmar?  This video will be dedicated to this question in which I will help you understand the struggles of Burmese garment workers.  Video editing app: inShot (free version)  Music by: @ikson, Last Summer.  Sources:  1.    Action Labour Rights, Under Pressure: A Study of Labour Conditions in Garment Factories in Myanmar which are wholly Korean owned or in a Joint Venture with Korean Companies, Report, March 2016  2.    Worker Rights Consortium, Worker Rights Consortium Assessment Popular International Garment co., ltd. Myanmar/Burma, 19 November 2020, available at: https://www.workersrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/WRC-Report-re-Popular-Garment-Myanmar-11192020.pdf and  https://www.workersrights.org/countries/myanmar/, https://www.workersrights.org/communications-to-affiliates/new-report-popular-garment-myanmar-burma/  3.    Progressive Voice, Raising the Bottom, A Report on the Garment Industry in Myanmar, December 2016, available at: https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Raising-the-Bottom-Layout-English-Version-15-11-20161.pdf  4.    ILO, Improving Labour Relations for Decent Work and Sustainable Development in the Myanmar Garment Industry (ILO – GIP), available at: https://www.ilo.org/yangon/projects/WCMS_568604/lang--en/index.htm  5.    Garment sector in Myanmar: A labour law training that brings workers and employers closer, Date issued: 25 February 2020, available at: https://www.ilo.org/yangon/multimedia/WCMS_737379/lang--en/index.htm  6.    International Labour Organisation, Myanmar garment sector: A labour law training that brings workers and employers closer, 25 February 2020, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKNJDF8HYwM  7.    International Labour Organisation, Garment sector in Myanmar: A labour law training that brings workers and employers closer, 24 June 2020, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=uMuEOmE5Dpw&feature=emb_title  8.    UNESCAP, Gendering in Garment Factories: Lives of Women in Economic Development By Aye Lei Tun, Gender Program Manager from Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation, available at: https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/DA9-04--Myanmar-country-study--Aye-Lei-Tun.pdf  9.    IndustriAll, Protecting garment workers’ lives in Myanmar, 26 October 2020, available at: http://www.industriall-union.org/protecting-garment-workers-lives-in-myanmar  10. IndustriAll, Что делают профсоюзы Мьянмы, чтобы защитить жизнь швейников?, доступно по ссылке http://www.industriall-union.org/ru/chto-delayut-profsoyuzy-myanmy-chtoby-zashchitit-zhizn-shveynikov  11. Business and Human Rights, Resource Center, Myanmar: Garment workers allege factories are using COVID-19 to dismiss union members; Incl. company responses, 12 May 2020,  12. SOMO, Action Labour Rights, Labour Rights Defenders & Promoters, The Myanmar Dilemma Can the garment industry deliver decent jobs for workers in Myanmar?, February 2017, available at: http://un-act.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/The_Myanmar_Dilemma.pdf  13. OpenDevelopment Mekong, EU provides €5 million emergency cash for Myanmar garment workers, 11 April 2020, available at: https://opendevelopmentmekong.net/news/eu-provides-e5-million-emergency-cash-for-myanmar-garment-workers/  14. The Nation Thailand, Myanmar garment workers still far from labour rights, report says, December 02, 2016, KHINE KYAW, MYANMAR ELEVEN, available at: https://www.nationthailand.com/business/30301345  15. International Labour Organisation, Voluntary Labour Compliance Assessment, for Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association, 2019, available: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/---ilo-yangon/documents/publication/wcms_736630.pdf  16. Ecotextile News, Workers’ rights complaint at C&A supplier taken forward, 07 August 2020, available at: https://www.ecotextile.com/2020080726502/social-compliance-csr-news/workers-rights-complaints-at-c-a-supplier-taken-forward.html  17. Bernhardt, Thomas & De, Kanay & Thida, Mi. (2017), Myanmar labour issues from the perspective of enterprises: Findings from a survey of food processing and garment manufacturing enterprises. 10.13140/RG.2.2.17803.08487, available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315046184_Myanmar_labour_issues_from_the_perspective_of_enterprises_Findings_from_a_survey_of_food_processing_and_garment_manufacturing_enterprises/citation/download' 
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