Made in Pakistan - The Slaves of Your T-shirt

As the European Union is on the way to approving key pieces of legislation cracking down on modern slavery from its consumer products, top clothing brands are still unwilling to fully remove from their supply chain child and bonded labour which continue to be a widespread scourge in cotton farming Pakistan.

The European Commission has recently decided to extend to Pakistan its duty-free trade regime. This was first introduced in 2013, under the condition that Pakistan would enforce the international labour standards and abolish any form of work exploitation. However, ten years later evidence shows that there is no real progress.

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