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Five people have been arrested over the murder of the boy.
The boy was tied to a stake and beaten to death.
Some 41 people are facing the death penalty over the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster.
“From the upper deck they were spraying hot water, pepper water at us, anyone who went up was hacked at with a cleaver.”
By people protesting the clothing giant’s failure to pay reparations for the 2013 Rana Plaza building disaster in Bangladesh.
He had criticised fundamentalist Islamic views.
Bangladesh progress to the quarter-finals after winning by 15 runs in Adelaide.
Sheikh Nurul Islam Faruqi, cleric and host of television shows on Islamic issues, was found tied to a chair with his throat slit at his home in August.
Reshma Akhter married her boyfriend and has a job in a local hotel.
Nearly 1,150 people died in the Bangladesh factory collapse one year ago today. Many international retailers still aren’t contributing to the victim fund, according to Human Rights Watch.
Victims of the building collapse have so far received $1,000 in average compensation, says a charity.
The company has already distributed $2m to workers and their families.
In this age of digitalised 24-hour news, how can it be so difficult to find a space for stories of people with death-defying courage? Those who defend human rights deserve better, writes Mary Lawlor.
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To date only one company, Primark, has provided financial support to survivors and has called on other brands to follow suit
The company was critical of other brands that were being supplied by the company that failed to attend a meeting in Geneva yesterday to discuss long-term compensation.
A third of 10,000 men in the Asian Pacific region who had committed a rape said that they had done so to punish the woman.
The 22-year-old asked for forgiveness today and said he no longer believes in radical Islam.
Meanwhile, the seamstress trapped in the rubble for 17 days after the Bangladesh garment factory collapsed was released from hospital yesterday.
A government report found that two floors had been added illegally and the ground it was built on had been a body of water, filled with rubbish.
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Primark, H&M, Zara and C&A have all adopted the accord, written up in the wake of the building collapse last month.
Oxfam says that about 90 per cent of high rise buildings in Dhaka, where last week’s tragic building collapse occurred, are not built even to local standards.
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The survivor is said to be in remarkably good shape despite her ordeal.
As the death toll passes 1,000, we want to know: Will this incident have an impact on your shopping habits?
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Bodies were found in the ruins of a stairwell, where the victims had sought shelter.
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The owner of the Tung Hai sweater factory was among the victims.
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Standardised textile labelling is vital to keep vulnerable workers safe in developing countries like Bangladesh, writes Aisling Twomey.
Many of the staff at the ill-fated nine-storey factory were earning just 38 dollars a month, a salary condemned as “slave labour” by Pope Francis.
Vietnam – working on improving technology, conditions and pay – is proving more attractive to brands who want to protect their consumer reputation.
Following the tragic accident at a Bangladesh clothing factory, Penneys has said it will give money to people who lost family members in the collapse – but we as consumers have a responsibility too, says Ruth Tanner.
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Bangladeshi protesters enraged by the deadly factory collapse led rallies against low wages and poor working conditions – kicking off worldwide protests to mark May Day.