Great to co-host with Colin Smyth MSP CPG Bangladesh & CPG Fair Trade joint meeting. Good to learn how sustainable initiatives tackle problems in Bangladesh's garment industry. Thanks to Cllr Nurul Hoque Ali & Evelyn Tweed MSP for attending & speakers Professor M. Azizul Islam & Mohammad Ghayasuddin

Excellent piece by just-style.com (Laura Husband)! Many thanks for incorporating my comments Final EU CSDDD vote makes brands accountable 11 years after Rana Plaza just-style.com/news/final-eu-… via just-style.com

Bangladesh is seeing the deadliest crackdown by the government against protesters in the country. Sign the petition demanding the government of Bangladesh to end this repression now: amnesty.org/en/petition/ba… amnesty.org/en/petition/ba…

Bangladesh's university teachers out in support of unknown hundreds of students and other people that have been killed, injured or arrested because they wanted a reform of the quota system - or got caught in the careless crossfire of the security forces

BANGLADESH 🇧🇩: Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard urges Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to end the ongoing crackdown on protesters and cooperate with the UN to conduct a thorough, effective, independent, and impartial investigation into the deaths and injuries

Published #OpenAccess “NGO Activism and Anti‐Corruption Disclosures: An Empirical Study of Emerging Economy Multinational Companies” Shah Md Taha Islam, Muhammad Azizul Islam, Zaheer Khan Zaheer Khan Monash Business School University of Aberdeen British Academy of Management Wiley Business onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

I hosted a panel discussion in Parliament this week on alarming violence in #Bangladesh that began with brutality towards students protesting corrupt public appointments but since widened to a broader movement for democracy Communications blackouts have added to climate of fear

The resistence will make you stronger and unstoppable! #SaveBangladeshiStudents

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Nothing is more beautiful than students' resistence against injustice and oppression #SaveBangladesiStudents

"Accountability for human rights violations – including for those with superior and command responsibility – is crucial. The international community must make it clear that at this pivotal time, there will be no impunity" ohchr.org/en/statements/…

This is quite a story in the Mail on Sunday If, as a HMT minister, Tulip Siddiq is paying discounted rent on a property, that financial interest must be declared under Ministerial Code Why did the MP refuse to provide an on the record statement? 👀 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Tulip Siddiq in 2016 in Opposition demanded more regulation of overseas property acquisition in London saying “the current lack of regulation on this kind of property acquisition is intolerable” and “House prices are being artificially inflated by offshore trusts”. In 2022

This is just a tiny example of how corrupt political leaders and family members benefited from looting Bangladesh. They have looted public money belonging to the poor people in Bangladesh and used it to buy luxury houses in London, New York orToronto dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Minister accused of failing to help lawyer who disappeared under aunt's regime in Bangladesh telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/1…

It was a pleasure to share my thoughts with Aidan Frere-Smith for FairPlanet about the role of a global anti-sweatshop campaign. As fast fashion booms, so does the fight for garment workers' rights. fairplanet.org/story/forced-l… University of Aberdeen No Sweat

My comment in this news: Workers were deprived of their rights by the autocratic regime for the past 15 years. Now when they see [there is an] interim government, their expectation on this government to fix labor issues, including their wages, is high. sourcingjournal.com/topics/labor/b…