Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Brave Deadly Fires To Make Luxury American Clothing
By Maher Sattar ASHULIA, Bangladesh — On Dhaka’s northwestern edge, the suburb of Ashulia is a favorite getaway for those seeking an after-hours escape from the fastest growing city in the world. Street lights are nonexistent, and the late-night trip from the city snakes north along a narrow lane toward paddy fields immersed in complete [...]
By: Shahenoor Akther Urmi The number of boutiques is increasing rapidly in Chittagong to cater to the changing lifestyle of the city dwellers, particularly the youngsters. Even seven or eight years ago, people in the region were not acquainted with the concept of boutiques, and the number of such fashion houses was negligible. Now, some [...]
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The Government of Bangladesh will soon decide on importing cotton from other countries in the wake of ban imposed by India on its cotton exports. To discuss the matter, the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has called a meeting with cotton importers, representatives of textiles and readymade garment (RMG) sectors and various Government agencies. The meeting [...]
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By: Julfikar Ali Manik and Vikas Bajaj. A labor activist who was arrested two years ago for his role in protests against low wages in Bangladesh’s garment industry was found murdered outside this city last week, labor rights advocates and the police said on Monday. The killing of the activist, Aminul Islam, marks a morbid [...]
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Apparel exporters are looking for a strong negotiation with Turkey during the Prime Minister’s Turkey visit in the second week of April to withdraw the safeguard duty imposed on Bangladeshi readymade garments (RMG). The RMG exporters said the export volume would increase significantly if the safeguard duty is withdrawn as export of Bangladesh’s garments to [...]
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By BRIAN ROSS, MATTHEW MOSK, and CINDY GALLI More than a year after 29 people were trapped in a fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh used by well-known American clothing brands, an ABC News investigation found the retailers right back in business at the factory. And labor groups say dangerous conditions such as locked [...]
Continue reading …BHS knitwear is made by ‘beaten and humiliated Bangladeshi sweatshop workers who are paid 10p an hour’
March 14, 2012 No Comment
by Damien Gayle A high street chain is selling clothes made by sweatshop ‘slaves’ who are paid just 10p per hour, a report claims. Workers making knitwear for Bhs are regularly beaten, threatened, stripped of their rights and imprisoned on false charges, according to workers’ rights investigators. The Philip Green-owned department store chain is among [...]
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Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have agreed to expand their bilateral cooperation in various fields, including trade and commerce, industry, agriculture, shipping, civil aviation and tourism. The consensus came at the 4th Joint Economic Commission (JEC) meeting between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka that concluded here on Thursday. At the two-day meeting, the two countries also agreed [...]
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Bangladesh maritime sector is likely to supersede readymade garments (RMG) in foreign exchange earning in a decade or two, the Danish ambassador in Dhaka said today, urging government to come forward with proper strategies and necessary supports for its rapid growth, reports BSS. “The potential of maritime industry in Bangladesh is very, very large-even larger [...]
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Businessmen of both Bangladesh and Canada are giving all efforts to cross the $2 billion mark this year in bilateral trade between the two countries. But even a few years ago they were struggling to cross the $1 billion mark as trade growth was slow. They had to hold scores of seminars and meetings at [...]
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A UK-based charity organisation claimed that workers of Bangladeshi factories producing sportswear for Adidas, Nike and Puma that supply products for the Olympic Games were being abused by managers and senior colleagues. While visiting the factories in Bangladesh, researchers at the War on Want found that the workers, including women, in the factories of all [...]
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The United States of America is the only superpower in the world today. Various international organisations like the UN, World Bank, IMF are directly influenced by US policies. The affairs of most countries in the world are also more or less influenced by Washington. The influence of the US is all pervasiveencompassing the economic, political [...]
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