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THIRST News Update – January 2022

Highlights: First Tea Transparency Tracker launched; female tea workers more vulnerable to violence; UN slavery rapporteur lambasts Sri Lankan tea…

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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…

Highlights: Fury at Bangladeshi tea workers' static wages; concerns that COVID-19 pressures will increase risk of forced labour; Finlays sued…

Kenya's radical proposal for tea price and income stabilisation fund. Indian gov set to amend 1953 Tea Act. Thriving Indian…

Does tea cultivation have to mean the destruction of forests? And if forests are conserved how will communities that depend…

Companies step in as lives ruined by climate emergency & COVID-19. Experts debate woke-washing & certification. Workers fight on for…

Vaccinations reaching tea workers, but lockdowns still affecting work. Small tea growers from India to Kenya experiment with minimum prices.…

THIRST is embarking on a human rights impact assessment of the tea sector. Working with civil society and industry across…

COVID-19 continues to plague India's tea workers and impact global tea sales. Wage protests persist across several tea growing areas.…