THIRST News Update – June 2023
Highlights: Image: Protesters buried in smoke after police fired teargas to disperse them at the Brooke trading centre in Kericho…
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THIRST News Update – June 2023
THIRST’s response to BHRRC’s new report
THIRST provided comments to the introduction of BHRRC's new report, Boiling Point - Strengthening corporate accountability in the tea industry,…
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THIRST’s response to BHRRC’s new report
THIRST News Update – May 2023
Highlights: THIRST guest blog calls for end to GBV in supply chains; weather extremes from drought to storm impacting tea…
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THIRST News Update – May 2023
Rising stronger in the face of failures
"There is no place in our world or our supply chains for gender based violence and harassment. No place in…
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Rising stronger in the face of failures
THIRST News Update – April 2023
Highlights: Climate change threatens longterm viability of tea; activist supporting Kenya sexual exploitation vicitms dies; women tea workers suffer greater…
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THIRST News Update – April 2023
Hear no evil, see no evil – gender issues in the tea industry
A guest blog by Michael Pennant-Jones. The recent BBC documentary Panorama -Sex for work: The true cost of our tea,…
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Hear no evil, see no evil – gender issues in the tea industry
When women roar, the world listens… so keep roaring!
This International Women’s Day, as the newspapers report that it will take 300 years to reach gender equality, and about…
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When women roar, the world listens… so keep roaring!
THIRST News Update – March 2023
Highlights: BBC exposé of widespread sexual abuse in Kenyan tea plantations: stakeholder responses. Supermarkets publish HRIAs on tea supply. W…
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THIRST News Update – March 2023
Why did all those policies, procedures and trainings fail to protect women in Kenyan tea?
A few years ago, there was one company that stood out as having the best record in levelling up the…
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Why did all those policies, procedures and trainings fail to protect women in Kenyan tea?
THIRST News Update – January/February 2023
Highlights: Precarious tea livelihoods resulting in strikes, absenteeism; battle continues for improved housing & land rights; increasing efforts to tackle…
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THIRST News Update – January/February 2023