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HM leads efforts to improve factory safety in Bangladesh
announced plans to improve safety conditions in factories that supply its clothing, the New York Times reported. Although H&M was the first company to make this pledge, other major European retailers, including Carrefour, Marks & Spencer and Inditex, parent of the huge Zara brand, are following its lead. It's "setting the stage for an industry-wide collaboration to improve ...
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Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh, the politics of their situation is more important than the human impact
Bangladesh and Myanmar have been disputing their sea border for years, and in recent months tensions on the land border have mounted as claims of interference and counter-claims of provocation are made by both countries, now the politics of territorial dispute have come to have a direct bearing on the respect for human life and development.
In October of 2009, the government of Bangladesh received a report from its military officials detailing a credible threat of attack from Myanmar, they feared that St Martin’s island in the Bay of Bengal, a region increasingly important economically for hydrocarbons, would be attacked and captured by Myanmar, and called for the government to strengthen the defensive capability of the island which has a circumference of just 3 miles. Read more
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