{"id":17484,"date":"2020-04-24T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/24\/soap-and-solace-scarce-as-sri-lankas-tea-pickers-toil-on-amid-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T06:00:17","slug":"soap-and-solace-scarce-as-sri-lankas-tea-pickers-toil-on-amid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17484","title":{"rendered":"Soap and solace scarce as Sri Lanka&#8217;s tea pickers toil on amid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers in a sector with a history of exploitation face hazards including a lack of masks and overcrowded accommodation<\/p>\n<p>In Sri Lanka, police have been enforcing tough lockdown measures and a strict curfew since March. The country\u2019s inspector general has instructed police to take action against social media users who criticise the government or spread \u201cmalicious\u201d pandemic information.<\/p>\n<p>An exception has been made, however, for the country\u2019s tea pickers. A caveat on the country\u2019s lockdown order, issued on 20 March, read: \u201cPaddy farming and plantation, including work on tea small holdings and fishing activities, are permitted in any district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/24\/soap-and-solace-scarce-as-sri-lankas-tea-pickers-toil-on-amid-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers in a sector with a history of exploitation face hazards including a lack of masks and overcrowded accommodationIn Sri Lanka, police have been enforcing tough lockdown measures and a strict curfew since March. The country\u2019s inspector general has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,847,311,59,566,232,61,674,992,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-employment","category-food","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-governance","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-tea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17485,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484\/revisions\/17485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}