Updates, blog posts and events from THIRST
THIRST brings you a range of news, analysis and events to help you keep track of human rights and environmental developments in the tea industry around the world. These include announcements of new publications and events such as discussions on topical issues, monthly news updates and thought provoking blogs. We welcome news, guest blogs and suggestions of topics for future TEA Talks from all sections of the tea sector – but especially civil society.
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Risk Factors for Gender Based Violence in the Tea Sector
A consortium comprising experts from the gender and tea sectors has united to unveil a groundbreaking report, shining a light on the underlying causes and multiple perilous risk factors associated […]
Monthly update
THIRST News Update – September 2023
Highlights: THIRST/WWW GBVH risk factors in tea briefing due out 18/9; S Indian tea farmers’ hunger strike re-prices; S Asian tea owners challenge gov. pay deals; tribals fight for tea […]
Monthly update
THIRST News Update – August 2023
Highlights Image: Tanmay Bhaduri, East Mojo Skip to section… THIRST News This month’s tea news Summary Darjeeling tea is being hit by multiple weather extremes as climate change continues to […]
Monthly update
THIRST News Update – July 2023
Highlights: Climate impacts: tea workers die of heatstroke; women tea workers at risk of trafficking and sexual exploitation; Kenyan politicians questioned over estate invasions. Image: Beauty classes have helped thousands […]
Monthly update
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 on May 21. Vitalis Kimutai | Nation Media Group Help THIRST […]
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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, but had not seen the full report until its publication […]
Monthly update
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 across continents; worsening cost-price imbalance in tea leads to vicious […]
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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 our world for men to demand sex for work. It […]
Monthly update
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 health hazards; tea producer threatens to pull supermarket products over […]
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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, has thrown a spotlight on gender-based violence in the Kenyan […]
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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 the sexual exploitation of women on Kenyan tea plantations (reminding […]
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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 Bengal gov gives land rights & housing to tea workers. […]