I don't need the media to tell me what's happening. I have family - therefore, a genuine vested interest in what happens to them and their community - and I stay in touch to this day. I know all about what the garment industry has done in the poorest parts of the world; I've seen the end result first hand (and second, third and fourth by virtue of having family working there).
The only one oblivious is you if you think you know how the real world works.
I.E. From just December last year :
http://www.eoi.es/blogs/amyblyth/dp-the-grameen-and-brac-exp...
For balance, here's the response straight from the horse's mouth before that story was written :
Very convenient when borrowers are unaware of those choices all too often as happened in Sri Lanka too after the tsunami.
And a guardian piece from 2008 :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/20/internationala...
Ah, but these are "Western media" outlets with a clearly biased view spewed from behind the computer. I was born there, but let me return to the modest shack my granddad built so I'll have better standing, shoulder-to-shoulder, with you.
Your organization is the NGO equivalent of the U.N. with greater far-reaching tentacles in every aspect of the poorest communities you influence. The garment factories you hold in such high esteem are exploitive in the extreme and the level of self-delusion you exhibit would have been funny if the consequences weren't so tragic.
Edit: Reply link not showing up yet. Meanwhile, since microcredit is the bread and butter, so to speak, of the BRAC scheme :
https://www.google.com/search?q=consequences+of+microcredit
https://www.google.com/search?q=effects+of+microcredit
https://www.google.com/search?q=repercussions+of+microcredit
They are NOT underpaid for the most part (If you actually bothered to read what I wrote). They are under-paid to "western living standard" but not according to the local living standard (for the most part). There are some exceptions and exploitations, but its very small percentage, but those are the examples that the media and people like you try to bring up when discussion these issues.
Lets be oblivious and ignore the world of good garments industry has done for literally millions people in the poorest parts of the world.
Change takes time, its not pretty, its not shiny, and its not fairy tale and sometimes people die in the process.