Bangladesh
Μια Δυστοπική Ιστορία Ζωντανών-Νεκρών σε Μία Από τις πιο Μολυσμένες Πόλεις του Κόσμου
Η συλλογή του Bhattacharjee με τον απλό τίτλο «Η Επιδημία», στην Ντάκα, ξεκίνησε ως ιδέα πολύ πριν εντοπιστεί ο πρώτος ασθενής με κορονοϊό παγκοσμίως.
Τι μας 'Εμαθε η Τραγωδία στο Εργοστάσιο Rana Plaza στο Βangladesh
Πέρασε ένας χρόνος από την ημέρα που σκοτώθηκαν 1,130 εργάτες σε εργοστάσιο ένδυσης στο Bangladesh.
The Bangladeshis Who Make Your Clothes Have Been Given a Pay Raise
Recent protests in Bangladesh achieved what looks like a victory over the weekend when the government announced that the minimum wage for garment workers is going to be increased by 77 percent, to $67 a month. Unfortunately, many wonder if factory...
Bangladeshi Workers Are Rioting and Burning Down the Terrible Factories They Work In
As many as 200,000 workers are participating in strikes, protests, and riots in Bangladesh. They are demanding a minimum wage of 8,000 Bangladeshi Taka, roughly equivalent to $100 per month—a huge increase from the $37 per month minimum wage that...
The VICE Podcast Show - Dov Charney on Reforming the Global Garment Industry
This week on the podcast we sit down with American Apparel founder and chief executive officer Dov Charney, who makes the case for reforming the global garment industry. He calls for an international minimum wage to curb the exploitation of workers in...
Bangladeshi Factory Disasters: Coming to an Australian Store Near You
Fast fashion is similar to fast food. Except, instead of screwing with your insides, it causes people in other parts of the world to work in shitty, sometimes deadly conditions.
Meet Sohel Rana, the Most Hated Man in Bangladesh
As is typical of a certain kind of Bangladeshi garment magnate, the man who owned the factory that collapsed last week and killed over 400 people is crass, vulgar, nouveau riche, and involved in equal measure organized crime and high politics.
A Factory Collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, and 300 People Were Crushed to Death
On Wednesday, more than 2,500 workers outside of Dhaka went to work in a factory where cracks had just recently appeared in the walls. The building collapsed. At this writing 300 people are confirmed dead, around 600 injured. Nine hundred people are...
The Rohingya Movement, as Seen by a Journalist in Burma
On Monday, we reported on the online activism surrounding the Rohingya genocide. Today we bring you an interview with a journalist on the frontlines in Burma, as well as an update on the RohingyaNOW movement as a whole.
Explaining Bangladesh's Month of Massive Street Protests and Violence
The Shabagh protests are a liberal street festival with a morbid demand. Nooses and chants calling for accused war criminals to be hanged have become shorthand in a battle of what defines the nation, an unfinished struggle of identity for a pluralistic...
Disasters Made in Bangladesh
We still don’t know exactly how many of Swapna’s coworkers were killed at the Tazreen Fashions factory on November 24, 2012. She was sewing shorts—“half-pants,” they’re called in Bangladesh—when on the ground floor piles of yarn and acrylic fabric...
World Peace Update
Last week's World Peace Update looked at the riots engulfing Slovenia, the trigger-happy Tunisian policemen who tried to blind the citizens of Siliana, and the looming possibility of Bashar al-Assad gassing what remains of his population to death with...