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Justice not afforded to victims of enforced disappearance

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) has made written submissions in the recent Sessions of the UN Human Rights Council on the prevalence of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh. To reiterate the overwhelming fact, victims of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh have no option of legal remedy from the criminal justice system. When this is reality, justice is simply a bridge too far. high courtArticle 32 of the Bangladesh Constitution guarantees the right to life and liberty, which reads: “No person shall be deprived of life or personal...

Apex Group emerges as shoemaker to the world

To see a different face of Bangladesh manufacturing, a country that has earned notoriety with its ready-made garment plants, one drives 25 miles north of Dhaka city to Gazipur district. Amid a predominantly industrial enclave of garmentmakers is a 24-acre site where 5,500 workers, mostly women, are busy stitching not clothes but a range of stylish leather shoes. [caption id="attachment_9030" align="alignleft" width="300"]apex Apex’s Nasim with his father Manzur Elahi[/caption] This is the factory of Dhaka Stock Exchange-listed Apex Footwear, Bangladesh’s lea...

Footwear industry is making tracks

Blue Ocean Footwear’s four-story factory, designed by noted Bangladeshi architect Bashirul Haq, an expert on building safety standards, is located close to Apex’s factory site in Gazipur. It has 4,000 people producing close to 2 million pairs of women’s shoes annually for customers like Esprit and Germany’s Tamaris. The workers are supervised by a team of 65 Chinese technicians who stay on the factory campus but don’t speak either English or Bengali. shoeInstead, Bangladeshi workers are being taught basic Chinese, says Sam Yu, Blue Ocean’s managing di...

ADB signs $ 125m loan to help BD municipalities

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bangladeshi government Wednesday signed an agreement for a 125 million U.S. dollars loan to improve services and governance in pourashavas (municipalities), making them more livable and attractive, and helping to ease population pressures in major cities. adb1Mohammad Mejbahuddin, secretary of Bangladesh’s Economic Relations Division (ERD), and Kazuhiko Higuchi, country director for ADB’s Bangladesh Resident Mission, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides at a ceremony in Dhaka. “Bangladesh ...

Canada reaffirms help improve maternal, newborn health in BD

In an attempt to improve maternal, newborn and child health in Bangladesh, the Conservative government Tuesday (Aug. 26) reaffirmed its support to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. Mississauga East-Cooksville MP Wladyslaw Lizon Tuesday morning hosted a parliamentary level meeting in Mississauga where Canada confirmed it will continue its commitment to improving lives in developing countries. [caption id="attachment_9022" align="alignleft" width="300"]Canada_support___Content Mississa...

Latest Bangladesh Poverty Maps launched

The State Minister, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Planning, M.A. Mannan MP launched the Bangladesh Poverty Maps 2010 on Wednesday the third generation of poverty maps in Bangladesh, which is an important statistical instrument for estimating the poverty incidence up to sub-district (upazila) levels. wbThe poverty mapping exercises show that Rangpur and Barisal Divisions have the highest incidence of poverty while Chittagong and Sylhet division have the lowest. The maps were developed in a joint exercise by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), t...
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