Sexual assault, forced labor, wage theft: garment workers in Jordan suffer for US brands

Activist groups work towards improving labor conditions in textile factories but abolishing the industry’s ‘norms’ is an uphill battleMehedi Mehedi, a 36-year-old Bangladeshi garment worker who had spent 14 years working in Jordan, left the country forever last December. It was not an easy decision to make: Mehedi had met his wife in Jordan, he had no guarantees of finding a job back in Bangladesh, and he was desperate to work in order to support his chronically ill father. In