This year, millions of people in South Asia head to the polls. Potential outcomes of elections in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, however, do not bode well for women’s rights or […]
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Struggle: Bangladesh Garment Workers’ Solidarity
Protest, minimum wage, and the ‘helplessness’ of RMG workers in Bangladesh
How can we expect workers of the country’s leading export industry to support themselves with a wage that does not meet their basic needs? As guaranteed by Article 37 of […]
The struggle to end gender-based violence in the workplace
Around the world, women are disproportionately affected by explicit gender-based violence (GBV) at work or on their way to work, for example, threats or acts of verbal, physical or sexual […]
Countering the intergenerational impact of Backlash
We recently attended two events organised by Bangladesh Garment Workers Solidarity (BGWS). One event commemorated a former colleague Aminul Islam Shama, former Organisational Secretary, Central Committee of Garment Sramik Samhati […]
Challenges of RMG trade unions: a perspective from labour rights activists
“Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren’t his. They belong to the person paying him to fish. And if he’s lucky he might get paid enough […]