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A women’s rights group pledged to take fundraising merchandise off the shelves yesterday if allegations that campaigning T-shirts were made in sweatshops are true.
The Fawcett Society promised supporters it was investigating whether its “This is What a Feminist Looks Like” shirts were made by women paid just 62p an hour.
The Mail on Sunday claimed that the garments — recently sported by Labour leader Ed Miliband among others — had been produced by women living 16 to a room in a Mauritian factory.
Held at a last-minute undisclosed venue amid fear of disruption, a Women’s Rights Network event brought together authors and activists, offering a day of debate on feminism’s past, present and future. JADE MIDDLETON reports
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
