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...Everybody thought the police had a quota of people to catch,” Panasyuk said. “There were so many random people that were arrested for no reason. While we were getting to the jail, it took [the police] 45 minutes to find a not full jail...
...where Joshi, who oversees global sourcing at the Children's Place, a North American chain of affordable-clothing stores, visits each year to buy the merchandise his company sells in America. Joshi does not enjoy having a travel schedule as packed as Kofi Annan's. But a system of quotas, originally put in place in 1974 to regulate a $350 billion-a-year global industry, limits the number of shirts, towels and other textiles any country can export annually to the U.S. and the European Union. As a result, the Children's Place?and all other American retailers...
...concerns are rife in Sri Lanka, where textiles and garments make up half of the country's exports, and the industry supports as many as 1 million workers. In Nepal, where more than 300,000 workers depend directly or indirectly on the garment sector for their livelihood, extending the quota system "is a matter of life or death," says Prashant Pokhrel, a Nepali exporter. Experts in Bangladesh fear that anywhere from $1.25 billion to $2.5 billion of that country's annual exports could be lost, with the shock waves rippling through the nation's banking sector and the entire economy...
According to the NLC, when WTO lifts its quota developing nations will lose all their work to China and further devastate workers like Akther and Maksuda...
...talk was a part of a national tour of universities and high schools with the National Labor Committee (NLC) in anticipation of a textile-quota lift planned for 2005 by the World Trade Organization...