Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangladesh

IPS - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

- Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water.On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh's arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of ...

Report on Bangladesh Building Collapse Finds Widespread Blame

International Herald Tribune - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

DHAKA, Bangladesh ...

Bangladesh building collapse owner blamed

The Courier Mail - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

THE head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex says the building's owner was the "main culprit" for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the nine-storey Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed more than 1100 workers in the country's worst industrial disaster. "He (owner Sohel Rana) is the main ...

Bangladesh panel blames building owner for disaster

Channel News Asia - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

The head of an official inquiry into the collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said Wednesday the building's owner was the "main culprit" in the disaster because he violated building ...

Bangladeshi volunteers haunted by rescue trauma

West Australian - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AFP) - Mamun was hailed a hero for pulling survivors from the ruins of Bangladesh's Rana Plaza factory complex but now he struggles to sleep, haunted by the memory of sawing off a young woman's hand."I had never even touched the hand of a woman before but it was the only way to save her and the others," said the 22-year-old in an interview ahead of the ...

US to push for major factory safety reforms in Bangladesh

Channel News Asia - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

A US government delegation will visit Bangladesh this weekend to press for a major overhaul of factory safety following the nation's deadliest industrial accident, an official said ...

Clothes for the West Inside a Bangladesh factory

MSNBC - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

A month after the deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh, that killed more than a thousand people, ITV News visited one of the factories in Dhaka that makes clothing for the west. ITV's Laura Kuenssberg ...

Bangladeshs Shahbag movement still on claim leaders activists

New Kerala - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

By Sahana Ghosh, Dhaka, May 22 : Directed at channeling the "patriotic spirit" of youngsters in Bangladesh to create a "secular youth force", the Shahbag movement, that peaked in February and March with tens of thousands of protesters and torchlight processions, is "not dead" and "lives on" sans the noise and the fury, its leaders and participating ...

Protests aimed at toppling Bangladesh govt

Asia News Network - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-Jamaat led 18-party alliance patronised the Hefajat-e Islam's May 5 rally in Bangladesh with the aim of toppling the government. Junaid Babunagari, detained secretary general of Hefajat, revealed this in his confessional statement to Metropolitan Magistrate Harun-ur Rashid of Dhaka in the sub-inspector Shahjahan murder case yesterday afternoon. The ...

Study says India Jordan Bangladesh Hong Kong worlds most racially intolerant

whatsonsanya - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

INDIA, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong are among the the most racist countries in the world - but Britain is among the most accepting of different races, a survey has found. The World Values Survey asked people in more than 80 countries what type of people they did NOT want as neighbours. More than 40 per cent of those quizzed in India, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong said they didn't ...

Dhaka Premier League to begin on July 1

Cricinfo - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Tuesday announced that the Dhaka Premier League, the country's most popular one-day domestic competition, would begin on July ...

Climbers from Bangladesh and South Korea die while descending from Everest

Asia News Network - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Two climbers have died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest on Monday night, officials confirmed.The climbers have been identified as Mohammad Khalid Hussain of Bangladesh and Sung Ho-Seo of South Korea.Khil Lal Gautam, official at Tourism Ministry, said that Ho-Seo, who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen, refused to put on oxygen mask on returning to tent as suggested ...

US slates attacks on minorities in Bangladesh

Asia News Network - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The US government in a recent report came down hard on Bangladesh for attacks on the religious minorities.The report, however, stated that the trend in government's respect for religious freedom did not change significantly in 2012. It generally respected religious freedom in Bangladesh.The US State Department, in its International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 released in Washington DC ...

Labour leaders in Bangladesh urge Wal-Mart Gap to sign factory accord

Asia News Network - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The local arm of IndustriALL, a global union federation, yesterday appealed to Wal-Mart and Gap to join a legally binding accord immediately to ensure safety in Bangladesh's garment factories.A total of 37 international clothing retailers have already signed the agreement designed by IndustriALL to contribute financially towards minimising occupational risks in Bangladesh's garment ...

Leaving Bangladesh Not an easy choice.

Yahoo!7 News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Bangladesh offers the global garment industry something unique: Millions of workers who quickly churn out huge amounts of well-made underwear, jeans and T-shirts for the lowest wages in the world. But since a building collapse April 24 killed at least 1,100 garment workers in Bangladesh in one of the deadliest industrial tragedies in history, the country has gone from one of the industry's ...

Bangladesh Justice System Compounds Violence Against Women

General Sources - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Introduction: 1. Bangladesh has been ruled alternately by two women for more than two decades. Both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition are women, and the posts have been held by women since the 1990s. The country's parliament has more than sixty female members and several of them are members of the cabinet. There are a considerable number of women serving in the ...

Gaps annual meeting overshadowed by Bangladesh safety accord

San Francisco Business Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Gap Inc. got an earful Tuesday during its annual shareholder meeting about not living up to its reputation as a socially responsible company. The San Francisco retailer (NYSE: GPS) received over 20,000 calls and plenty of hate mail from disgruntled customers around the world who are angry over its failure to sign onto an international agreement calling for building safety in Bangladesh, where ...

Primark to provide aid to Bangladesh factory victims

One News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Bangladesh rescue nears end, death toll at 1127 Budgetfashion retailer Primark says it will provide short-term financial assistance to all victims and families affected by the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh last month, while the clothing industry continues to formulate a long-term compensation plan. The collapse of the building, where clothes were made for various ...

UPDATE 1-Gap willing to sign Bangladesh safety accord if tweaked

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tue May 21, 2013 4:04pm EDT May 21 (Reuters) - Gap Inc's chairman and CEO said on Tuesday the U.S. retailer was ready to sign a global accord designed to prevent another deadly disaster in Bangladesh's garment industry, provided there were some "very minor accommodations." A series of incidents at factories has focused attention on safety standards in Bangladesh's booming ...

Bangladesh’s other workplace catastrophes

Human Rights Watch - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

collapse of the Rana Plaza building on more than 1,000 workers, which made it the deadliest ever catastrophe in the history of the garment industry. Last November, a garment factory fire killed more than 100 people. So the tannery worker’s assessment sounds like a sick joke. But the truth is it was a realistic assessment of the deplorable health and safety conditions in Bangladesh. ...

BRIEF-Gap CEO says has not given up that a global bangladesh safety accord of some kind can be worked out

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

CHICAGO | Tue May 21, 2013 2:01pm EDT CHICAGO May 21 (Reuters) - Gap Inc : * CEO says has "not given up" that a global bangladesh safety accord of some kind can be worked out * CEO says ready to sign existing accord led by industriall with some "very minor ...