THIRST News Update – May & June 2022
Highlights: Ukraine war impacts tea exports. Severe hailstorms, rain & temperature rises hit Kenyan and Indian tea; new climate-adapted tea…
Highlights: Ukraine war impacts tea exports. Severe hailstorms, rain & temperature rises hit Kenyan and Indian tea; new climate-adapted tea…
THIRST's new report - drawing on over 200 authoritative references - finds that despite a plethora of human rights standards,…
THIRST's Literature Review report on human rights across the global tea industry will be published in mid-May. This roundtable is…
Highlights: Women battle sexual abuse & discrimination across tea sector; mechanisation & land sales threaten workers homes, jobs; smallholder cooperatives…
THIRST is delighted to share with you this record of our first three years of existence. We are grateful to…
Highlights: Russian invasion of Ukraine has knock-on effect on tea market; estate workers struggle to access benefits, lack land-rights; climate…
Highlights: Finlays' Kenyan employees win right to hear work injuries case in Scotland. India proposes new Tea Act as 1953…
Highlights: First Tea Transparency Tracker launched; female tea workers more vulnerable to violence; UN slavery rapporteur lambasts Sri Lankan tea…
Happy International Tea Day! But is it...? Well, yes, kind of... The day that the UN designated International Tea Day…
Highlights: Unilever sells tea business to CVC amid worker welfare concerns and sustainability pledges; tea industry wakes up to urgency…