Wages and Severance

Fashion brands fail to act while 40,000 workers in Bangladesh remain at risk of arrest for demanding their right to a living wage

Oct 29, 2024 —

¨Photo: Clean Clothes Campaign.

Photo: Clean Clothes Campaign.

Campaigners, labour rights advocates and trade union representatives are calling on fashion brands, like H&M and Zara, to do more to protect the rights of Bangladeshi workers who make their clothes by ensuring that the 36 legal cases filed against groups of workers and demonstrators during the 2023 wage protests in Bangladesh are dropped.

Will ouster of Bangladeshi Prime Minister open the door to justice for students and workers?

Aug 27, 2024 —

2024 reform movement in Bangladesh (Rayhan9d).

Students organize the "Bangla Blockade" (Rayhan9d).

Massive protests by students and their supporters in Bangladesh this July and August led to the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the creation of an interim government headed by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, raising hopes of an end to repression and the creation of new opportunities for students and workers.

The murder of at least 300 students and other protesters and the detention of thousands were only the most recent instances of government repression against human and labour rights activists, garment workers and union leaders.

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