Sweatshop

Haque is one of 10 Bangladeshi workers employed by the INCA factory in Lezha. The manager says Albania no longer supplies enough labour, forcing him to seek workers far away.

"I plan to stay here for a long time because I have no other solution," Abudalep, 28, another Bangladeshi migrant employed at the INCA factory told BIRN. "In my country there is no work," he adds.

The whir of sewing machines sounds from street-level windows all over the downtown Athens districts of Patissia, Galatsi and Stathmos Larissis is a constant monotone. Every once in a while, a person emerges from these basement workshops for a cigarette break or to get something from a kiosk.

The Küçükpazar neighborhood of Istanbul's Fatih district has become a center of sweatshops, where children from outside Turkey are forced to work in shocking conditions. 

A gang of Bangladeshis with forged documents allegedly transferred undocumented workers to Cyprus to work in sweatshops. Greek-Cypriot Fileleftheros newspaper reports that 7-8,000 euros were taken from each person so that they could be transported to the free parts of the island, using false documents with promises of work.

Seventy-two people died in a huge blaze at a footwear factory in the Philippine capital, authorities said May 14, as angry relatives and workers described sweatshop conditions including dismal fire safety standards.

New report released by Clean Clothes Campaign shows that garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey are paid poverty wages.