Bangladesh Articles

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...

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,...

‘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...