In its Smokescreens in the Supply Chain report, the Swedish NGO blamed British American Tobacco (BAT), the world’s third largest tobacco company, for “expanding cultivation into new countries without adequately addressing human rights challenges”.
Swedwatch said it had identified widespread child labour issues and severe health issues in BAT’s Bangladeshi supply chain.
Frida Arounsavath, a researcher at Swedwatch, told EurActiv.com that the workers producing tobacco for BAT Bangladesh (BATB) were farmers, their wives and children, and also hired agriculture labourers, as well as their family members.
“Children and adults alike report health problems from exposure to pesticides, absorption of nicotine through the skin when handling the leaves (the acute poisoning is called Green...
Robi Axiata Limited (“Robi”), announces the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), as part of its ongoing efforts towards developing and promoting talents from within. Accordingly, Mr Mahtab Uddin Ahmed will be taking over as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director of Robi, in Bangladesh replacing Mr. Supun Weerasinghe to be effective from 01 November 2016. Going forward post succession, Mr. Supun Weerasinghe will return to Dialog Axiata Plc (Dialog), Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider as the successor to the incumbent Group CEO, Dr Hans Wijayasuriya to be effective from 01 January 2017.
Mr Mahtab, currently seconded to Axiata Group for a special assignment will return to Robi’s Leadership team from 01 September 2016 in the capacity of the Deputy...
A potentially giant earthquake may be building up beneath Bangladesh and eastern India and could endanger as many as 140 million people, a study said on Monday.
The earthquake is not imminent but inevitable as sections of the earth’s crust press against one another, according to the study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
No estimate on when such a quake may occur is possible without additional research, the
study’s lead author Michael Steckler, a geophysicist at Columbia University in New York, ...
An Asia-Pacific money laundering group has moved its meeting out of Bangladesh citing security concerns, officials said on Monday, 10 days after militants stormed a cafe in an upscale part of the capital and killed 20 people, mostly foreigners.
Some 350 foreign delegates had been expected in Dhaka to attend the July 24-28 annual meeting of The Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering that seeks to pool efforts to fight illegal money transfers and terrorist financing.
The group said in a statement on its website that the meeting will now be held in September in the United States. The exact location will be decided later. It gave no reason.
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The United States on Sunday offered Bangladesh Washington’s expertise in building Bangladesh’s counterterrorism capabilities.
The offer came from US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs Nisha
Desai Biswal who came to Dhaka in the wake of the Gulshan cafe attack that left 28 people killed.
“We will continue our assistance in combatting the global threat of terrorism that our countries both confront,” she said after her official talks.
She met foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali ...
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan chose to stay tight lipped on Bangladesh Eid attack, saying he does not want any controversy out of it. SRK’s remarks on intolerance had landed him in trouble last year after he had said that there was ‘extreme intolerance in the country’.
“Last year media asked me something simple on my birthday and it became an issue. I did not
enjoy my birthday and I hold that against everyone,” Shah Rukh told reporters here yesterday on occasion of Eid.
“Maine kuch aachi, sharif baa...
