Rana Plaza
The Fight For Bangladeshi Labor Rights Hits New York City
Labor rights activists gathered outside of Walmart board member Christopher Williams’ Manhattan office last…
Indian Factory Fire Kills Six
A fire erupted in a textile factory in New Dehli, India, killing at least six workers, including four…
Can We Save Dhaka By Splitting it in Half?
Following the Rana Plaza factory collapse, international attention has fixated on the questions of labor…
Breaking News: Bangladesh Factory Manager Taken Hostage By Workers
Hopes that recent concessions by factory owners would quell cascading violence in Bangladesh over a…
Bangladesh Factories: More Pessimism than Progress
Since the Rana Plaza tragedy, industry players have scrambled to organize alliances and develop sound…
Breaking News: Another Bangladesh Factory Engulfed in Flames, Kills 7
On Tuesday, a fire overrun a garment factory in Bangladesh, killing seven and reportedly injuring dozens…
Countries, Orgs Join to Rescue Bangladesh
With concerns over Bangladesh factory safety mounting, more and more nations and organizations are joining…
Editorial: Fix Bangladesh’s Politics First, Then Factories
After the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh last April, the worst accident in the…
Global Union Wants $71 Million for Rana Plaza Victims
It’s time to pay up for the deaths and calamity caused by the Rana Plaza collapse in April. The cost: $71…
McKinsey Study: Avoiding Bangladesh Wishful Thinking
A new study issued by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. forecasts even greater Bangladeshi dominance of…
UN Factory Monitoring Group in Cambodia Plans to Name Names
After the tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse last April, Bangladesh became an object of intense international…
Bangladesh Factory Owners Fear Excessive Minimum Wage Hike
Mahtab Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury, managing director of knitwear manufacturer, Falcon Group, told the Dhaka…
Bangladesh: Increasingly Competitive, Increasingly Corrupt
The good news, according to a recently issued study, is that Bangladesh is showing clear signs of improved…
Bangladesh: Competing Humanitarian Alliances May Collaborate
Almost immediately after the Rana Plaza factory collapse, two competing consortia of retailers who outsource…
Radical Solution to Unsafe Bangladeshi Factories: Move Them
In response to the discovery that Bangladesh’s factory conditions are far worse than anyone reckoned and…