Bangladesh, long a global leader in garment manufacturing, faces an economic reckoning as factory closures escalate. The once ...

The International Labour Organization recently reported that 71 percent of the global workforce is exposed to excessive heat ...

Imposing VAT on metro fares and taking the service further away from the poor, it risks becoming more like a status vehicle—which rich commuters already have plenty of. But what about the ...

Labor Activist, Kalpona Akter: My name is Kalpona Akter. I’m one of the founders of Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity, fighting in the frontline for workers’ jobs with dignity. And today I ...

The Economic Reporters Forum, an organisation of journalists covering the economy sector, has elected Doulot Akter Mala as its new president and re-elected Abul Kashem as its general secretary. Mala ...

That is almost one in every 10 children. Kalpona Akter was 12 when she started working in a sweatshop in Bangladesh. Her father was the primary earner in the family, and he got ill. Her mother worked, ...