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just-style.com
March 27, 2018
Better Work Bangladesh is running a Levi Strauss Foundation-funded project that provides shoes to barefoot workers in the country's garment factories. According to Better Work, many in the Bangladesh ready-made-garment labour force still work barefoot inside factories; a practice that can often lead toÃâà...
Supply Chain Dive
March 16, 2018
Bangladesh, for one example, could benefit greatly from digital banking. Payments made to and by businesses constitute 83% of the total payments in the country, but only 6% of those payments, whether made or received, are transferred digitally. Breaking it down further, garment workers constitute 45% ofÃâà...
Ecotextile News
March 15, 2018
... HERhealth initiative, aimed at promoting improved education and access to healthcare among female textile workers. Lindex claims to – through initiatives of this kind – have directly reached around 22,000 female textile workers in the garment-producing nations of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India,Ãâà...
Supply Chain Dive
March 12, 2018
A new application launched by the Bangladeshi labor inspectorate, called the Labour Inspection Management Application (LIMA), is designed to ... For those with suppliers in Bangladesh, this digital labor inspection app may be a start to improve the working conditions to the 4 million garment workers inÃâà...
Quartz
March 8, 2018
In Bangladesh, the world's second-largest clothing exporter after China, estimates put the share of garment workers who are women as high as 80%. The proportion is estimated to reach just as high (pdf) in Vietnam, while in Cambodia, women account for an estimated 90% of the workers filling its garmentÃâà...
bdnews24.com
March 7, 2018
Being a former garment worker, the Netherlands Ambassador in Dhaka Leoni Cuelenaere believes every female garment worker in Bangladesh has the potential to grow and have access to promotions. ... He explained: “In Bangladesh, everybody knows a large number of garment workers is women.
Jacobin magazine
February 28, 2018
In all, she talked to 140 workers: in Bangladesh and South Africa and Cambodia; in the United States and the Philippines and Morocco — berry pickers, garment workers, small farmers, fast-food workers, adjunct professors, airport workers, home health care aides. Labor scholar Stephanie Luce recentlyÃâà...
Ecotextile News
February 28, 2018
DHAKA – Microfinance Opportunities (MFO) and the C&A Foundation have released a report on the living and working conditions of female garment workers in Bangladesh, Cambodia and India. The report was launched alongside the Fashion Focus: Fundamental Right to a Living Wage presentation in theÃâà...
Dhaka Tribune
February 22, 2018
The suspected rapist also reportedly threatened the victim of sexually assaulting her two sisters if they report him to police. A case was filed with Joydebpur police by the victim's family. Sources say the accused, 35-year-old Momen Khandakar, is known as a drug dealer in the locality. The victim wasÃâà...
Sustainable Brands
February 22, 2018
A first-of-its-kind research project led by Microfinance Opportunities (MFO) in partnership with Fashion Revolution and C&A Foundation gives the most comprehensive picture yet of the living and working conditions faced by female garment workers in Bangladesh, Cambodia and India. The reports coincideÃâà...
just-style.com
February 21, 2018
A research project has given one of the most comprehensive pictures yet of the living and working conditions faced by female garment workers in Bangladesh, Cambodia and India. Led by global non-profit Microfinance Opportunities (MFO) in partnership with Fashion Revolution and C&A Foundation, theÃâà...
bdnews24.com
February 16, 2018
Bangladesh garment producers are facing the twin pressures of media attention on factory conditions, exacerbated by the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, and consumers resistant to the price increases that could help pay for improvements. The result has been more automation and less bargaining power forÃâà...
Dhaka Tribune
December 31, 1999
The report titled “State of Rights Implementation of Women Ready-made Garment Workers” found that many women garment workers are not getting their rights as stipulated in the labour law of the ... Currently, female RMG workers constitute around 55% of the 4.2 million RMG workforce in Bangladesh.
just-style.com
December 31, 1999
Bangladesh's trade unions are again pushing for what they call "rational" minimum wages for workers in the country's US$28bn garment industry ... Anticipating possible objections from business leaders, Amirul Haque Amin, president of the National Garment Workers Federation, says Bangladesh clothingÃâà...
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