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Workers were reporting high levels of exhaustion and heat stress due to constant power outages during a scorching summer.
-* With Bangladesh witnessing its worst power crisis in a decade, BPO workers have been working from offices with no cooling systems, and going back to homes with no (...)
The Essential Services Bill 2023, which is an update to the original Essential Services (Maintenance) Act 1952, is currently awaiting presidential approval. As of April 2023, the bill was tabled for discussion in Parliament, and the standing committee was allowed 30 days to produce a report on (...)
Shahidul Islam died in an assault on Sunday in Dhaka after meeting garment factory employees fighting for unpaid salaries
Police in Bangladesh are investigating the murder of a prominent trade union leader who was fatally beaten while trying to settle a dispute between a garment factory (...)
A rally held in Dasmina Upazila with North Char Shahjalal landless family and a memorandum presented to the District Commissioner of Patuakhali demanding Khas land settlement and cancellation of fake settlement.
On 21 June 2023 at 11 O’clock in front of Dashmina Upazila office in the (...)
Yesterday 8 June 2023 at 5 pm at its temporary office 27/11/1-A, Topkhana Road, Segunbagicha, Dhaka, an emergency meeting of Pragatisheel Krishak Sangram Parishad (an alliance consisting of 15 farmers, farm laborers and landless organizations inspired by the spirit of independence) was held. (...)
At the end of the 12-day visit to Bangladesh, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter, sat for an exclusive interview with The Business Standard.
Let’s start with your takeaways from the trip.
The progress made by the country in the fight against (...)
Bangladesh, a seriously climate affected country, was hit by cyclone Mocha on 14 May 2023.
Cyclone Mocha was supposed to hit the southern part of Bangladesh being a super cyclone. However, eventually, it lost its speed and hit the south-eastern part---Cox’s Bazarand St. Martin island which (...)
Ongoing struggles over Muslim vs. Bengali identities pave the way for authoritarianism in Bangladesh
In the latest iteration of the Bengali vs Muslim identity debate, a Supreme Court lawyer served a legal notice on April 9, 2023 to Bangladeshi authorities to prohibit the Mongol Shobhajatra (...)
Looking back on a corporate crime in Bangladesh that cost over 1,000 lives
The Rana Plaza textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed on 24 April 2013, burying some 5,000 people underneath. The day before, cracks had been discovered in the walls of the factory building and the collapse (...)
April 24th, 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, which killed more than a thousand garment workers in Bangladesh.
With one of the lowest average wages in the world and the leading exporter of ready-made garments (RMG), Bangladesh has since been tied to the image of (...)
Bangladesh on 24 January passed a law that seeks the universalisation of pension schemes towards the social security coverage of Bangladeshi citizens.
Called the Universal Pension Management Bill, the measure is a response to the low number of people in Bangladesh who enjoy social (...)
On 30 November 2022 Bakul Begum who is the local leader of Bangladesh Kishani Sabha, an associate organization of Bangladesh Krishok Federation was chopped to death by the local land terrorists. This incident took place in a small island situated in the southern coastal district of Bangladesh (...)
Today 20 January 2023, Friday, at 11 am in front of the National Press Club, a rally is held demanding “Tax justice”.
Under the chairmanship of Comrade Badrul Alam, President of Bangladesh Krishok Federation, and under moderation of Zayed Iqbal Khan, General Secretary of Bangladesh Krishok (...)
Years after years pass by. A new year arrives, but does it bring any changes to the distress and vulnerability of the world’s most persecuted refugees around the world ? After the last Rohingya refugee influx into Bangladesh on August 25, 2017, an estimated 745,000 Rohingyas fled from Myanmar (...)
ALRD, TIB, Law and Arbitration Center, Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, Bela, Blast, Human Rights Culture Foundation, Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Parishad, Bangladesh Krishok Federation organized the press conference protesting the brutal killing of landless women in Sikdar’s Char in Charfashan (...)
Today, November 30, 2022, Bakul Begum, the leader of Ward No. 9 Mujibnagar Union Landless Cooperative Samity of Charfashion Upazila of Bhola District, Central Leader of Bangladesh Kishani Sabha, wife of Alam Bachchu, Central Member of Bangladesh Krishok Federation and President of Bhola (...)
Today, November 7, 2022 Monday, the 26th death anniversary of Comrade Abdus Sattar Khan, the lifeblood of the Bangladesh Farmers’ Movement, the pioneer of the land movement, the peoples intellectual, the organizer of the liberation war, the founding president of the Bangladesh Krishok (...)
Nearly 10,000 homes were destroyed or damaged by storm that flooded cities and forced a million to evacuate
At least 24 people have died and millions were without power after Cyclone Sitrang struck Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of about a million people.
Most of the deaths were from (...)
A rally on food and climate was organized by the Bangladesh Krishok Federation and the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development(APMDD). Before the rally, a protest march paraded the various roads of Dhaka city.
The rally was presided over by Bangladesh Krishok Federation President (...)
On October 15, 2022, at 11 a.m. in Barguna Sadar Upazila Agriculture Office Hall, Barguna, organized by Bangladesh Krishok Federation, a seminar on ’What is the relationship between land movement and food sovereignty?’ was held.
Under the chairmanship of District President Lashkar Md. (...)
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