Child labour ‘rampant’ in Bangladesh factories, study reveals
Overseas Development Institute survey finds 15% of six- to 14-year-olds living in poorest households work an average of 64 hours a week
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Breaking boundaries: Bangladesh’s women cricketers
Gifted cricketers Chumki Akter and Ismat Ara were born in poverty in Bangladesh. Now they are playing the game at the highest level. Mark Seacombe hears how a British charity is offering young women the future of their dreams
Read moreEthical gifts: think of others when you think of others this Christmas
Lendwithcare offers ethical alternatives to traditional gifts, so you can help budding entrepreneurs across the globe
Read moreDistrict Council election candidate nominations announced for Biswanath
Upcoming Sylhet Zila parishad elections for ward number 9 member nominations has received 7 valid nominations out of 9 candidates with 2 nominations cancelled as they were invalid. This was announced by returning officer and deputy commissioner of Sylhet Zainal Abedin. The Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet held a conference to announce the nominations on Saturday afternoon. The candidates with valid
Read moreEastern Aleppo becoming ‘one giant graveyard’ says UN humanitarian chief
- Stephen O’Brien says 25,000 forced to flee homes since Saturday
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Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar ‘turned away by Bangladesh’
Border guards detain hundreds, says Amnesty, while others left in makeshift camps face shortages of food and water
Read moreWhat Bangladesh can do to help garment workers
Letters: Bangladesh must diversify its economy to create better jobs and strengthen workers’ rights so that women have more job options for a better future
Read moreFour Futures: Life After Capitalism review – will robots bring utopia or terror?
Peter Frase’s roaming, thoughtful work of ‘social science fiction’ sketches out a frightening future of rich v poor
Read moreSecret aid worker: Surely NGOs should embrace trade unions, not block them?
NGOs work to improve social justice abroad, but organisations reveal a double standard in their attitude to workers’ rights at home
Read moreBiswanath Union Parishad Ward 1 meetings held
Sylhet Biswanath Sadar Union Parishad ward 1 meetings were held recently. On Saturday morning at the government primary school premises chairman Chayaphula Haque was the chief guest at the meeting. He said the overall cooperation with the locals will be implemented in every area of development. The interests of the people of the earth in society, and all that will
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