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Bangladesh: Stop Persecuting Unions, Garment Workers
(New York) – Dozens of garment workers and labor leaders are facing unfair or apparently fabricated criminal cases in Bangladesh after wage strikes in December 2016, Human Rights Watch said today....
View ArticleGirls’ Rights Hang in the Balance in Bangladesh
“Girls have no ground to stand on.” Those were the words of the leader of a local women’s nongovernmental organization (NGO), describing the gender discrimination that affects every aspect of girls’...
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Big Clothing Brands Hint at Battle With Bangladesh
It’s been a torrid few years for Bangladesh’s lucrative garment-making industry. There was the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013, when more than 1,100 workers died when an eight-story factory collapsed on...
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End Child Marriage In New York
In Partnership With For Sharing .embed.node-interactive:not(.align-left):not(.align-right) { margin-left: 0; width: 100%; } figure.embed .embed-media { width: 100%; }X Child...
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Bangladesh: Man Released From Long Secret Detention
(New York) – The release this week of a man held incommunicado for more than six months after his apparent abduction by security forces is a step forward, but Bangladeshi authorities need to...
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Bangladesh: Legalizing Child Marriage Threatens Girls’ Safety
ExpandBelkis, 15 years old, holds her one-year-old son in the house where she lives with her mother, two sisters, and one brother. Belkis was married when she was 13 years old to a man who threatened...
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The Politics of Arsenic-free Water
Last month, three UN human rights experts released a joint letter to the Bangladesh government about the country’s failing response to deadly arsenic in drinking water.Two decades after the problem...
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Bangladesh: Immediately Suspend Imminent Executions
(New York) – The Bangladesh government should immediately halt the imminent execution of three men convicted of a May 2004 grenade attack, which targeted the then British High Commissioner, Anwar...
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Bangladesh Expands Efforts to Stifle Free Speech
It is a challenge for governments to manage the onslaught of social media that can incite public violence. But too often, a state crackdown is aimed more at silencing critics than maintaining public...
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Bangladesh: 5 Years On, No Justice for Aminul Islam
(New York) – The Bangladeshi authorities have failed to make measurable progress in investigating the April 4, 2012 abduction, torture, and killing of prominent labor rights activist Aminul Islam,...
View ArticleClothing Brands Should GO Transparent
The Transparency PledgeThe objective of the Transparency Pledge is to help the garment industry reach a common minimum standard for supply chain disclosures by getting companies to publish...
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A Message to Global Brands from a Rana Plaza Survivor
ExpandRelatives cry for loved ones trapped in the collapsed Rana Plaza building outside Dhaka on April 24, 2013. (c) 2013 Reuters “Sometimes I just can’t sleep without pills. I keep remembering how...
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UK: Tobacco Giant Should Respect Human Rights
(London) – British American Tobacco (BAT) should strengthen its processes for identifying and addressing human rights risks in its global supply chain, Human Rights Watch and Swedwatch said today in an...
View ArticleOpen Letter to British American Tobacco Shareholders
To British American Tobacco Shareholders:We write on behalf of the nongovernmental organizations Human Rights Watch and Swedwatch to draw your attention to serious human rights abuses we have...
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Bangladesh “Gay Party” Raid Flouts Privacy Rights
ExpandMembers of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 4, 2012. Members of the RAB raided a gathering in Dhaka on May 19, 2017, arrested 28 men, paraded them in front of the...
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Free Speech Under Fire in Bangladesh
ExpandStatue of "Lady Justice" outside Bangladesh's Supreme Court building. © PublicDuring a recent visit to Bangladesh to revisit my years there as a student, a colleague suggested I meet Sultana...
View ArticleVideo: Activists in Bangladesh Secretly Detained For Years
Bangladesh law enforcement authorities have illegally detained hundreds of people since 2013, including scores of opposition activists, and held them in secret detention. The Bangladesh government...
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“We Don’t Have Him”
SummaryMy brother asked, “Can I have your identity? What is your force? Are you RAB, CID, DB?” They did not identify themselves. He asked several times. They did not wear any uniform and they had no...
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Bangladesh: End Disappearances and Secret Detentions
ExpandRelatives hold portraits of disappeared family members at an event calling for the end of enforced disappearances, killings, and abductions, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 30, 2014. © 2014 Zakir...
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