Date of publication: March 24, 2009
Source: IPS
Author: Feizal Samath
BIYAGAMA, Mar 24 (IPS) - Ramani, 26, sits inside her small, dimly-lit boarding house room, cutting vegetables, in this industrial town outside Colombo. She plans to return to her rural village in May to get married.
"Most girls generally work for five years in garment factories and return to their villages to get married,’’ she says.
Thousands of young women, employed in garment factories spread across Sri Lanka, and concentrated in Free Trade Zones (FTZ) in towns like Biyagama, now face an uncertain future due to lowered demand for their products...