Gethin Chamberlain

The grim truth of Chinese factories producing the West’s Christmas toys 0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- December 6, 2016
Investigation exposes low wages, hazardous chemicals and overtime beyond legal limits Gethin Chamberlain for The Observer, 4 December 2016 Xiao Fang thinks she’s one of the luckier workers making Barbie dolls for the Christmas market at the Mattel toy factory in Chang’an. True, she says, she works 11-hour days, six days a week, and shares
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The expensive ‘Italian’ shoes made for a pittance in east European sweatshops 0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- August 21, 2016
A troubling study claims that workers producing UK high street brands are enduring low pay and poor conditions Gethin Chamberlain for The Observer, 21 August 2016 Campaigners claim millions of shoppers are being led to believe the expensive shoes they buy in high-street stores are made in Germany and Italy – when many are actually
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999 Crisis: Ambulance response times across the UK hit a record low 0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- July 31, 2016
30% of vehicles failing to meet the 8 minute limit by Gethin Chamberlain for the Sun on Sunday, 31 July 2016 AMBULANCE response times in the UK are at a record low, with thousands of patients dying needlessly every year. The news comes as a Sun on Sunday investigation finds that just 6.2 per cent
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Six-year-old girl says other children wouldn’t play with her after she lost her leg – but now she’s been given hope 0
- Video
- June 11, 2016
Gethin Chamberlain, in Gaziantep, Turkey, for the Sunday Mirror, 11 June 2016 Four-year-old Shahd lay covered in dust when her mother found her. Her right leg was gone, taken off by the blast of a barrel bomb. Close by, her brother lay dead, his head smashed. A moment earlier they had been just another family
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