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Justice Still Elusive in Factory Disasters in Bangladesh
by Jim Yardley. The New York Times Associated Press Bangladeshi officials at the Tazreen Fashions garment factory near Dhaka last year. A fire at the factory killed 112 workers. DHAKA, Bangladesh —...
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After Disaster, Bangladesh Lags in Policing Its Maze of Factories
By JIM YARDLEY New York Times DHAKA, Bangladesh — Not even two months after the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building claimed more than 1,100 lives, a team of engineers arrived to assess another...
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Wresting the Narrative From the West
By JAMES ESTRIN New York Times As far as Shahidul Alam is concerned, he does not live in the third world or the developing world. While the photographer’s home is in Bangladesh, a decidedly poor...
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Activists Identify DC Cop Who Infiltrated Bangladesh Sweatshop Protests
by Mike Elk Common Dreams Left: Still photo from a video of the May 15 protest at Children’s Place. Right: Photo from @snufftastic Twitter account.Rumors have flown for many years that DC police...
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Silver threads, frayed seams
Until Off to work, Mirpur, Dhaka. September 12, 2012. Photo © AM Ahad Drik Calendar 2014 Well-worn flip flops walk briskly along well-travelled footpaths. Brightly coloured bangles jangle against...
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1134 – lives not numbers
A group exhibition dedicated to the lost garment workers of Bangladesh. Photo: Taslima Akhter Still haunted by the memories. When I close my eyes I see the procession of corpses, following me behind,...
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Demand for exemplary punishment for owners responsible for death of workers
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Mishu in police custody
File photo of Moshrefa Mishu, president of Garment Workers Unity Forum. Moshrefa Mishu, president, Garments Sromik Oikko Forum, who was leading the fast-unto-death hunger strike of Tuba Group workers...
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Introduction to the Drik 2016 calendar. A behind the scenes glimpse at a remarkable media phenomenon: The dot matrix Olivetti printer was noisy. The XT computer came without a hard drive: two floppy...
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This article was written in September 2017, and published in The New Age, but couldn’t be uploaded on ShahidulNews as a result of a series of cyberattacks on sites related to me. It is prescient now,...
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এই গল্পের সাথে কেউ কোন চরিত্র মিলাইবেন না। যে মিলাইবেন দায় তার… কয়া দিলাম কিন্তু…. করোনার প্রকোপে আর কিছু না হোক আমি যে পাগল হইতেছি এইটা তার বড় প্রমান। সো পাগলে কী না বলে…🧟♂🧟♂🧟♂🧟♂ Nahida Ashrafi....
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