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…
Highlights: Image: Protesters buried in smoke after police fired teargas to disperse them at the Brooke trading centre in Kericho…
THIRST provided comments to the introduction of BHRRC's new report, Boiling Point - Strengthening corporate accountability in the tea industry,…
Highlights: THIRST guest blog calls for end to GBV in supply chains; weather extremes from drought to storm impacting tea…
"There is no place in our world or our supply chains for gender based violence and harassment. No place in…
Highlights: Climate change threatens longterm viability of tea; activist supporting Kenya sexual exploitation vicitms dies; women tea workers suffer greater…
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…