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Showing posts with label Tea Workers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tea Workers. Show all posts
Jun 10, 2020

Slave labor: a disgrace to humanity

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The deadly collapse of Rana Plaza garment factory complex in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 (Photo: AFP) A dreadful, black day passed silently...
Mar 14, 2020

Bangladesh tea workers: A legacy of neglect and servitude

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A worker at a tea estate in Srimangal in Bangladesh's Moulvibazar district. Despite a production boom, tea workers live a life of mi...
Dec 13, 2019

Forgotten and invisible: modern-day slaves

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Indian sex workers look out from their brothel in the red light district of Kamathipura in Mumbai. Socially conservative India, Bangladesh...
Oct 31, 2019

A guiding light for Bangladesh's marginalized communities

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Sister Salome Nanuar, CSC (Photo: Rock Ronald Rozario) As a child Salome Nanuar assumed she would end up becoming a poor and marginali...
Dec 8, 2017

No relief for Bangladesh's most vulnerable communities

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An elderly female tea-plucker works in one of Bangladesh's many tea gardens in this file image. (Photo by Mufty Munir/AFP) There ...
Dec 9, 2013

Bangladesh loses sight of own refugee past

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Rohingya Children at a refugee camp in Bangladesh (photo: Dr. Habib Siddiqui ) Bangladesh , one of the world’s poorest and most densely ...
Jul 18, 2012

In search of a homeland

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I’ve just watched a classic Bengali film called Ontorjatra – Inner Journey. It’s about the emigrants’ search for a homeland and a sen...
Jul 9, 2012

For tea workers, there’s no place to call home

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I’ve just come back from northwestern Sylhet, a hilly and densely forested region famous for its tea plantations. The poor souls who w...