Late last month, as industry experts presented their offerings at Bharat Tex — one of the world’s largest textile events — two organisations from Bengaluru marked their presence with a rather unique offering: felt apparel, and accessories. The pilot was successful, and Enviu started looking for partners in India who could make felt and the search ended in Panipat,” says …
In Uganda, sex workers face stigma and abuse. “What motivates me every day are the little things I do in terms of services to sex workers,” Sanyu Hajarah Batte, the centre’s executive director, told Al Jazeera. “Mine isn’t the worst, because I’ve documented worse stories of sex workers,” Batte told Al Jazeera matter of factly, her voice hoarse. “Sex workers …
On the terrace of a seafood restaurant in Houston, Texas’s largest city, a few ladies are enjoying a local oyster dish: the breaded mollusks are slathered in mayonnaise and served in a sandwich. The cans are full of not just oyster shells but also water, discarded oyster forks and squeezed lemons. But due to Covid there’s not quite as much …
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