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Abuses ‘still rife’: 10 years on from Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza disaster

Campaigners say safety has improved but brands need to do more for workers’ rights and pay as survivors recount tragedy

The Guardian - UK

A decade after the Rana Plaza garment factory disaster, New Zealanders still rely on fast fashion

Ten years to the day after the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh, a disaster that killed more than 1,100 workers and injured another 2,500, the global addiction to cheap clothing remains strong.

The Conversation

Men who escaped fire in crowded London flat face homelessness

Men of Bangladeshi origin say they cannot find homes after paying landlord to live in ‘humiliating’ conditions

The Guardian - UK

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91 Saudis, Dozens of Foreign Nationals Evacuated from Sudan to Jeddah

Ninety-one Saudi nationals and some 66 foreign nationals from 12 countries arrived in Saudi Arabia’s coastal city of Jeddah after being evacuated from Sudan. The evacuation was carried out by the Saudi Royal Navy with the support of various armed forces. The Foreign Ministry confirmed the arrival of the Saudis…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Fast fashion still comes with deadly risks, 10 years after the Rana Plaza disaster – the industry's many moving pieces make it easy to cut corners

On April 24, 2013, a multistory garment factory complex in Bangladesh called Rana Plaza collapsed, killing more than 1,000 workers and injuring another 2,500. It remains the worst accident in the history of the apparel industry and one of the deadliest industrial accidents in the world.

The Conversation

Rana Plaza: ten years after the Bangladesh factory collapse, we are no closer to fixing modern slavery

It’s ten years since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed at least 1,132 garment workers and injured several thousand more. The collapse of the eight-storey building on April 24 2013, which housed five factories making clothes for western high street brands like Accessorize,…

The Conversation

Eid al-Fitr 2023 moon sightings and confirmed dates for Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, India and UK

Countries across the world have declared dates for Eid but many of them fall on different days

Wales Online

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Friday essay: 'I trained to be an engineer ... now I am a pickle seller'. What does migration do to a wife?

But you know what’s funny? All my life, I have been trained to be an engineer. Look at me now, I am a pickle seller!

The Conversation

Bangladesh suffers widespread power outages during relentless heat

Bangladesh is being forced to cut power to millions of people as a relentless heatwave leads to a surge in demand for power and thereby creates massive electricity supply shortfalls during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Reuters

West Bengal: BSF seizes gold worth Rs 36 lakh smuggled from Bangladesh at international border, one held

Foiling a smuggling bid, the Border Security Force (BSF) seized gold biscuits worth Rs 36 lakh smuggled from Bangladesh to India in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

‘A gamechanger’: this simple device could help fight the war on abortion rights in the US

Only a tiny fraction of primary care physicians provide abortions. Dr Joan Fleischman wants to offset the rightwing war on reproductive rights by training many more of them

The Guardian - US

Suicide is not a crime

More countries are realising that punishing individuals doesn’t prevent them from acting on suicidal thoughts but simply puts them in greater distress.

360info

Suicide is a mental health issue, not a crime

Bangladesh inherited its suicide laws from the colonial era. A more modern approach is needed to deter the behaviour.

360info

Shubo Nabo Barsho! Happy Bengali New Year!

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Fespaco. There’s a celebration of the Bengali New Year, as well as the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick and “Music from Vincent” with Vincent Pora. All that, and the new quiz question, too, so click on…

Radio France Internationale

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Reuters

Fire rips through Bangladesh shopping complex, smoke hampers rescue efforts

A huge fire swept through a shopping complex containing nearly 1,500 shops in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka, officials said on Saturday as firefighters and soldiers struggled to put out the blaze with smoke hampering rescue efforts.

The Conversation

Fast Fashion: Why garment workers' lives are still in danger 10 years after Rana Plaza — Podcast

Fast fashion is that ever-changing need to have the latest beautiful thing at a bargain price — that club-ready piece of clothing, that status symbol shoe or that must-have top you just found at the mall.

The Guardian - UK

‘Time we put an end to it’: the Bangladeshi women fighting their silent killer

A group of Bangladesh’s health workers are working to reach women in some of the country’s most isolated places, to fight back against stigma of cervical cancer

ABC News

The Australian town where water insecurity is felt more than some communities in Bangladesh

Welcome to Walgett, where bottled water can be more expensive than Coca-Cola, and Indigenous residents go to bed thirsty.

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The Independent UK

Plant pandemics threatening global food supplies, scientists warn

‘We have to assume that plant diseases are going to spread all over the world,’ scientist says

Al Jazeera

Bangladesh arrests four for caning, stoning woman over affair

Police say the woman was ‘caned 82 strokes’ and ‘stoned 80 times’ with small brick pieces after an imam issued ‘fatwa’.

Daily Mirror

'I went on holiday with my family - and was the only one to come back alive'

Sadiqul Islam, 25, was in Bangladesh on holiday in July 2022 with his parents and two siblings when a freak gas leak killed his entire family - he may have been saved by a simple fan

Manchester Evening News

'I went away with my family - I was the only one to return alive'

Sadiqul has told his heartbreaking story

Wales Online

'I survived a freak gas leak that killed my mum, dad, brother and sister'

He survived because of a fan next to his bed

Wales Online

The melting point mile of restaurants that became Wales' curry capital

There's nowhere better in Wales if you fancy a curry

Tribune News Service

Amanda Little: Ukraine has given the world a blueprint to fight hunger

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year triggered tumult across global grain markets. As the cost of corn and wheat surged, panic spread about instability in countries from Yemen to Bangladesh that depend on the warring region for low-cost grains. Would famine worsen? Would civil unrest ensue?

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