Following a four day shutdown of hundreds of factories by strikes and a series of violent confrontations involving tens of thousands of people, Bangladeshi garment workers have forced the bosses into ...

Global South workers at the supplier and sub-supplier levels are going unpaid as unprofitable, Australian-based fashion brands close their doors. Despite industry best practices highlighting clear ...

The past two weeks have seen mass walkouts and wildcat strikes by thousands of garment workers. After five years the industry’s minimum wage structure has been adjusted but workers have rejected the ...

Abdus Salam has been bedridden with a fever for a couple of days, but he is more anxious about the repayment of debts that he incurred to cultivate paddy in the field, only to see the crop destroyed ...

A high-ranking Bangladeshi diplomat based in New York accused of forcing his servant to work for up to 18-hours a day without pay was charged Monday with labor trafficking and assault. A high-ranking ...

At a meeting in April 2011, more than a dozen retailers including Wal-Mart, Gap, Target and JC Penney met in Dhaka to discuss safety at their supplier Bangladeshi garment factories. Bloomberg News ...

Police in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka say thousands of garment factory workers, who want higher minimum wages, have blocked roads and attacked shops and factories. Reporter: Anbarasan Ethirajan ...

A high-ranking Bangladeshi diplomat based in New York accused of forcing his servant to work for up to 18 hours a day without pay was charged Monday with labor trafficking and assault. In a case ...