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Lead contamination was sampled and detected in soil on crop, vegetable, and mustard fields in the Nayanjholi Khal-Ghosbag Community. These findings indicate substantial lead contamination in the tested samples, posing potential risks to human health.

At Fiat Fashion Ltd in Bangladesh, union members and leaders were dismissed after forming a legal union and protesting workplace violence against a female worker.

Repression against legitimate and elected trade unionists and massive work pressure at the Masihata Sweater Ltd. factory, Bangladesh – workers are forced to work without a break (e.g. on 30 consecutive days in June, 155 hours of overtime are worked per worker in the workforce). The weekly days off were not granted.

More than 800 workers at the CRS Jeans Factory in Tokat, owned by Şık Makas – one of Turkey’s 500 largest industrial companies – went on strike on October 8 2025, stating that they had not been paid for 66 days.

On 25 July 2025, 56-year-old union leader Myo Myo Aye of Solidarity Township Garment Labour Organisation (STUM) was arrested at her home in the Shwe Pyi Thar district of Yangon. Various other members of the union as well as Myo Myo Ayes daughter Chue Thwei were arrested in the following days.

Despite an expected annual profit of £1.08 billion, the British company NEXT PLC closed its only unionised plant in Sri Lanka on 19^th May 2025. Two months on the affected workers and their union are still fighting against the closure.

Textile company Natural Wool Wears has been paying its employees' wages late for months. After the March wages were only paid on 22^nd April 2025 and then only partially, the workers walked off the job the next day.

On 15 February 2024, union organisers and activists of the Akota Garment Worker Federation (AGWF) in Bangladesh were beaten, threatened, and subsequently hospitalised. The attack followed an attempt by workers of the Libas Textiles factory in Gazipur, to establish a factory union that would join the AGWF.

At the Tammam Design factory in Bangladesh and another factory of the Lusaka Group, there were repeated cases of sexual harassment of female workers. Instead of taking action against these incidents, 85 female workers were dismissed.

Information reviewed by the Forced Labour Enforcement Task Force (FLET), including publicly available information, indicates that Dongguan Oasis Shoes Co., Ltd. cooperated with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) to recruit, transfer, and receive individuals from persecuted groups, including Uyghurs, out of Xinjiang for labour at its factory in Guangdong.

An investigation of Workers Rights Consortium reports severe repression of workers’ freedom of association – including mass firings and arrests, threatened and actual violence, wage theft, and blacklisting against 400 workers at Levi’s supplier factory in Turkey.

Fashion Forum Ltd. in Ashulia, Savar and one other factory were shut down indefinitely after owners posted closure notices at the gates, preventing workers from entering on April 1. The sudden closure without paying wages affected about 4,000 workers.