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  • Bangladesh garment factories reopen within days of shutdown Bangladesh garment factories reopen within days of shutdown

    DHAKA - Bangladesh has re-opened hundreds of garment factories after just three days of closure following protests over pay and poor work conditions. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association had called for the re-opening on Friday. The shutdown of factories this week was prompted by worker protests over low pay and poor working conditions sparked by the country's ...

  • Bangladesh garment hub reopens

    Hundreds of garment factories in a Bangladesh manufacturing hub have reopened after being closed for days because of unrest sparked by the country's worst industrial tragedy, employers say.Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association shut down the factories at the Ashulia industrial area on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka earlier this week after tens of thousands of workers ...

  • Kerry Meets Bangladeshi Counterpart

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States wants to see Bangladesh move forward on improving labor standards after a building collapse that killed hundreds of garment ...

  • Bangladesh Garment Industry Surviving the Rana Plaza Building Collapse

    Hundreds of garment factories are up and running again Friday in Bangladesh. They’d been closed down by three days of protests over dangerous working conditions. Those protests were sparked by April’s collapse of a building near the capital Dhaka which housed five garment factories. The collapse killed more than 1,100 workers. Bangladesh is the world’s second-biggest ...

  • US wants Bangladesh progress on labor standards

    WASHINGTON -; Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. wants to see Bangladesh move forward on improving labor standards after a building collapse that killed hundreds of garment ...

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  • Groups divided on Bangladesh safety overhauls

    NEW YORK -- The nation's largest retail industry organization fired back Friday, outlining reasons why a legally binding global pact to make Bangladesh clothing factories safer would expose merchants to undue legal exposure. The move came as U.S. retailers face increasing pressure from a large coalition of religious groups and investors to work together to develop a plan."It is a very ...

  • Bangladesh Delegation Defends Trade Status in Washington

    Barack Obama 's administration not to revoke trade preferences as it reviews worker-safety conditions in the Asian nation. A delegation from Bangladesh met with officials from the U.S. Trade Representative's office on May 15 to discuss the agency's study of the trade benefits, agency spokeswoman Kate Villarreal said today in an e-mail. The April 24 collapse of a garment ...

  • UN human rights chief welcomes signing of Bangladesh work safety accord by major companies

    Hundreds people lost their lives when an eight-story building outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed on 24 April, 2013, trapping thousands of mostly garment workers inside. Photo: ...

  • UN assesses low damage from weakened Cyclone Mahasen in Bangladesh Myanmar

    Displaced people in Khaung Doke Khar, Myanmar, were moved out of tents to nearby government shelters outside Sittwe, Rakhine state ahead of Cyclone Mahasen. Photo: UNHCR/M. ...

  • The Bangladesh Problem Will Be Solved The Same Way The China Problem Is Being Solved

    I think we would all agree that wages in Bangladesh are shockingly low: those textile workers are getting $40 a month or so for very long hours in what we know to be dangerous conditions. I'm equally sure that we'd all like such wages to be higher: and the problem comes as we try to work out how to raise them. At which point let us switch to a different country and use it as an ...

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