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21 December 2010
Striking garment workers in Bangladesh victimised
Strikes and protests by Bangladesh garment workers continue in the face of harsh repression by the state...
15 December 2010
Garment workers demand a living wage in Bangladesh
ONCE AGAIN thousands of textile workers in Bangladesh were forced to take to the streets last week to demand that all employers pay the new monthly minimum wage which was meant to be implemented by 1 December following protests last July...
Protesters demand halt to opencast coal mining in Bangladesh outside mining company Global Coal Management Resources Ltd annual general meeting , photo M Thain
8 December 2010
Protesters demand halt to opencast coal mining in Bangladesh
PROTESTERS VOICED their anger at Global Coal Management Resources Ltd (GCM), outside the mining company's annual general meeting (AGM) in central London on 6 December, writes Manny Thain.
18 November 2010
The long march in Bangladesh: interview with a march organiser
The people of Bangladesh are among the poorest in the world. Wages are so low that they undercut those of China in many industries.
4 August 2010
Garment workers demand a living wage
Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh took to the streets of Dhaka to dismiss the recently announced increase in the minimum wage as completely inadequate...
21 April 2010
Banks use microloans to fleece poor
MICROLOANS ARE small loans to people who would otherwise not have access to finance, they are often for amounts of around $20...
16 September 2009
Bangladesh: Angry protests at police attacks
On 2 September, a demonstration through the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, was proceeding peacefully until it reached a police blockade, writes Manny Thain, east London.
14 January 2009
Bangladesh: Protesters denounce global mining corporation
A PEACEFUL and powerful demonstration against Global Coal Management (GCM) Resources Plc and its destructive open coal mining activities in Phulbari, northern Bangladesh, took place in London outside GCM's annual general meeting on 16 December* 2008, writes Rumana Hashem.
11 November 2008
To open the discussion on the environment, Pete Dickenson highlighted the latest evidence showing a rapidly worsening global warming situation, which indicates some of its effects are now irreversible, writes David Petrie.
7 September 2006
Bangladesh: 20,000 protesters march against British mining company
THOUSANDS OF angry protesters torched buildings linked to a British coal mining firm in northern Bangladesh, last Monday morning. This follows the fatal shooting of at least five people protesting against an open-pit mine in northern Bangladesh, writes Khalid Bhatti, CWI, Pakistan.
10 January 2004
WHILE BUSH and Blair's 'war on terror' continues, the number of chronically hungry people grows by five million a year. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation recently estimated that 842 million people were malnourished in 1999-2001...
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