BCWS in the News

International media:

• Kalpona Akter's Speeches in Mary Robinson Speaker Series 2023 - Raising the bar: Regulating corporate abuse. organized by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, 14 September 2023
• Hugo Boss Signs On to Pakistan Accord in Yahoo Life, 28 April 2023 by Jasmin Malik Chua
• The BoF Podcast | Ten Years After Rana Plaza, Has Fashion Changed? in The Business of Fashion, 28 April 2023 by Sarah Kent & Imran Amed
• Canadian companies still failing on garment workers' rights, 10 years after Rana Plaza collapse in VOGUE, 26 April 2023 by Naimul Karim
• Rana Plaza: Ten years on in Development and Peace CARITAS Canada, 18 April 2023 by Philippe Lafortune, animator for Central and Southern Quebec
• Rana Plaza: Ten years on in Development and Peace CARITAS Canada, 18 April 2023 by Philippe Lafortune, animator for Central and Southern Quebec
• Decade After Rana Plaza, Safety Flaws Persist. Many Clothing Brands Missing from Accords in Bangladesh, Pakistan in Human Rights Watch, 17 April 2023 by Human Rights Watch News
• For One Woman, Defending The Rights Of Garment Workers Is The Fight Of Her Life in VOGUE, 08 March 2022 by Zoe Beaty
• Fashion’s $16 Billion Debt To Garment Workers Should Spark Reform, Not Sympathy in Forbes, 13 October 2020
• Sustainability event focus of garment worker wage campaign in Just Style, 12 October 2020
• Clean Clothes Campaign COVID-19 Posts in Clean Clothes Campaign Facebook Page, 2 October 2020
• Clean Clothes Campaign Facebook Page JCPenney, #PayUp! Posts in Clean Clothes Campaign , 1 July 2020
• Clean Clothes Campaign Facebook Page #PayUp! Posts in Clean Clothes Campaign , 30 June 2020
• Clean Clothes Campaign Facebook Page LEVI'S, #Time to #PayUp! Posts in Clean Clothes Campaign , 30 June 2020
• Pay Your Workers in Clean Clothes Campaign
• COVID-19 IN BANGLADESH | What the pandemic means for the women who make our clothes in OxfamCanada, 24 April 2020
• Coronavirus at the Bottom of the Supply Chain in The Nation, 23 April 2020
• Worker leaders to launch global campaign against buyers. in Buisiness Mirror, 13 April 2020
• Job cut fears as fashion brands slash orders in Bangladesh with coronavirus in REUTER, 20 March 2020
• Fashion to Die For in Business of Fashion, 13 September 2018
• La moda rápida mata, Pikara, 24 May 2018
• BLIJF Made in Bangladesh Kopen, BehindMyCloset, 29 April 2018
• “ Die Katastrophe von Rana Plaza hätte verhindert werden können “, Handelsblatt, 27 April 2018
• “No pido el boicot a las marcas, sino un consumo responsable”, El Pais, 24 April 2018
• “Galde ezazue dendetan ea zein baldintzatan fabrikatu zen arropa”, Factoria de Valores, 23 April 2018
• Kalpona Akter: «Nous demandons une prise de conscience internationale, pour pouvoir travailler dignement» 50-50 magazine, 19 April 2018
• Kalpona Akter sindikalistaren hitzaldia antolatu dute Bilbon, Uriola, 4 April 2018
• Loonsverhoging helpt Bengalese textielarbeiders niet vooruit, Apache, 4 April 2018
• 'Some kids are not orphans because of this': how unions are keeping workers safe, The Guardian, 8 November 2017
• Beyond Rana Plaza, Wardrobe Crisis podcast, July 2017
• Interview with Kalpona Akter, Bangladeshi labor activist fights for safety at Garment Factories, SBS Australia, 1 April 2017
• ‘Keep buying clothes made in Bangladesh, but ask questions’, News.com.Au, 31 March 2017
• How your bad shopping choices affect my loved ones in Bangladesh, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 March 2017
• The Conditions at Bangladeshi Apparel Factories Are Still Horrible. What Happens to Workers Who Speak Up Might Be Worse, Slate, 3 February 2017
• Kalpona Akter, Bangladesh 2016 Recipient of the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights Watch, 01 September 2016
• Three years on from Rana Plaza disaster and little improvement in transparency or worker conditions, The Conversation, 22 April 2016
• WorldLink: Q&A with Kalpona Akter, Deutsche Welle, 2016
• Bangladesh labor leader arrested during Rana Plaza protest in New Jersey, The Guardian, 15 March 2015
• Standing Against Abuse in the Garment Industry, UTNE, September 2015
• Creating justice for Bangladeshi garment workers with pressure not boycotts, The Conversation, 25 April 2015
• Bangladesh factory disaster forces West to think about high cost of cheap clothes, The Irish Times, 28 December 2013
• Bangladesh garment workers need union advocacy, says Ms. Kalpona Akter, Women News Network, 16 December 2013
• Bangladeshi garment workers fight back, The Nation, 15 November 2013
• Striking Workers, Bangladeshi Activist Challenge Wal-Mart on Labor Conditions at Stores & Factories, Democracy Now, 11 June 2013
• What It's Like To Work In A Bangladeshi Factory, NPR, 11 May 2013
• Bangladeshi Labor Activist Kalpona Akter Fights for Safety at Garment Factories, PRI, 30 April 2013
• Survivor of Bangladesh’s Tazreen Factory Fire Urges U.S. Retailers to Stop Blocking Worker Safety, Democracy Now, 25 April 2013
• Bangladeshi Labor Activist Finds Burned Clothes with Wal-Mart Labels at Site of Deadly Factory Fire, Democracy Now, 27 November 2012
• Kalpona Akter calls on Wal-Mart shareholders to stand up for garment workers internationally, Social Alterations, 6 May 2011
• Bangladesh Labour Organisation Harassed by Government, Clean Clothes Campaign, 28 July 2010

Bangladesh media:

• Budget for 2021-22: Pressing issues left unaddressed in The Daily Star, 13 June 2021
• RMG Fire and Building Safety: Brands off the hook from today in The Daily Star, 31 May 2021
• Fire and Building Safety in Rmg Sector: Brands yet to agree to renew accord in The Daily Star, 23 April 2021
• প্রায় ১০ হাজার পোশাকশ্রমিক ছাঁটাইয়ের শিকার, দাবি ৩ সংগঠনের in দৈনিক প্রথমআলো, 16 April 2020
• All Talk and No Action?, The Daily Star, 20 April 2018
• Aminul murder: ‘Who is so powerful that they killed Aminul — yet are still untouchable?’ Dhaka Tribune, 19 April 2018
• Fourth Anniversary of the Rana Plaza Collapse: Where do we stand?, The Daily Star, 24 April 2017
• Bangladeshi labour rights activist Kalpona Akter wins award, Dhaka Tribune, 1 September 2016