A guest blog by Michael Pennant-Jones. The recent BBC documentary Panorama -Sex for work: The true cost of our tea,…
This International Women’s Day, as the newspapers report that it will take 300 years to reach gender equality, and about…
Highlights: BBC exposé of widespread sexual abuse in Kenyan tea plantations: stakeholder responses. Supermarkets publish HRIAs on tea supply. W…
A few years ago, there was one company that stood out as having the best record in levelling up the…
Highlights: Precarious tea livelihoods resulting in strikes, absenteeism; battle continues for improved housing & land rights; increasing efforts to tackle…
THIRST is governed by a Board of Trustees which currently has six members. Between them they bring a wide range…
Highlights: Repatriated Sri Lankan tea workers at risk of redundancy, homelessness; to poverty and other problems for tea workers and…
For almost two centuries, since the inception of the tea industry, criticism for low pay and poor living and working…
Highlights: Tea industry under widespread strain; women tea workers can - and do - break cultural stereotypes; new resources on…
Highlights: Kenyans sue UK government for land theft, abuses; human rights abuses persist across tea origins; climate crisis and fluctuating…