Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Hartal protest against power plant
Follows mass strike of garment workers in December […]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Stop the Rampal power project
The world’s largest mangrove forest lies on the deltas of three rivers: the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is here, in an area of outstanding natural beauty called the Sundarbans, that the Bangladeshi government plans to site a coal-fired power plant. […]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh: One year on from Rana Plaza disaster
Protest letter from Paul Murphy and other MEP’s […]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Over one hundred killed in election sham
Both sides mired in corruption and violence […]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh building collapse: Casualties of a rotten profit system
It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. […]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Revolutionary fire at Shahbagh
Verdicts of the Bangladesh war crimes tribunal this February, which were widely seen as overdue and too lenient, sparked off a wave of protests in Dhaka’s Shahbagh Square and throughout the country. […]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Striking garment workers victimised
Strikes and protests by Bangladesh garment workers continue in the face of harsh repression by the state. Following the deaths of three strikers, shot down when police opened fire on demonstrators in Chittagong on 14 December, the protests have increased. […]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh: fighting poverty pay
Strike and protest action in around 4,000 factories […]
Bangladesh
Textile workers: Protests in Bangladesh and Cambodia
Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh took to the streets of Dhaka to dismiss the recently announced increase in the minimum wage as completely inadequate. […]