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Bangladesh Articles

Rana Plaza: Six months on

Six months on from the horrific Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, which claimed the lives of more than 1,100 people and injured over 2,500 others, there remain huge challenges to securing safe working conditions for people across the developing world. The horrific...

Decent work for all

You’d expect both left and right to agree that the best way for people to escape poverty – in the global south as much as in Britain – is to work their way out. Rhetorically, that’s certainly the case. But look at the detail of what the coalition-led DFID is doing,...

The Dhaka disaster and Workers’ Memorial Day

‘Immediately we fell several storeys. I closed my eyes as the entire place was engulfed with dust. A stitching machine fell on my leg. All I could see were dead bodies all around me.’ Those are the words of Shariful, a worker who was pulled from the rubble of a...

World Pneumonia Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkbVZcf5j2c To mark World Pneumonia Day, 12 November, Ivan Lewis, MP for Bury South and shadow secretary of state for international development, travelled to Dhaka, Bangladesh, as part of a senior parliamentary delegation to see...

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