Dennis J. Bernstein spoke with filmmaker and human rights activist, Jeanne Hallacy, just back with horror stories from Myanmar and the massive Rohingya camps of over 700,000 in neighboring Bangladesh.
“You cannot rule out the possibility that acts of genocide have been committed,» says United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, says “You cannot rule out the possibility that acts of genocide have been committed” against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Around 650,000 have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh since August where most have no other option than to remain in refugee camps at
The death of 13 children in Bangladesh has been linked to the use of a pesticide known as Endosulfan.
The sudden deaths of 13 children in a remote village in Bangladesh was caused by exposure to a routinely used pesticide applied in a nearby lychee tree orchard, according to a scientific report released Monday. The study published in American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene shed light on a mystery occurring in 2012, where 13 children
Muslims in an overwhelmingly Buddhist nation, the Rohingya have long faced persecution in Myanmar, where most are denied citizenship.
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh — The Myanmar soldiers came in the morning, the young mother says. They set fire to the concrete-and-thatch homes, forcing the villagers to cluster together. When some of her neighbors tried to escape into the fields, they were shot. After that, she says, most people stopped running away. "They drove us
Pressure from environmentalists has led to a police crackdown on the tiger poaching in the region.
At least six alleged tiger poachers were killed today during a gunfight with Bangladesh police in Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest stretching both Bangladesh and Indian coastlines.
“Police initially detained six of the poachers and asked them to lead us (police) to their hideouts inside the
“These workers paid with their lives to make cheap clothes for Western brands,” a global labor union tells MintPress, calling on the factory’s largest customer, Wal-Mart, “to take responsibility and pay up.”
WASHINGTON --- Survivors of a major fire at a Bangladeshi garments factory in 2012 are still calling for adequate compensation from some of the most well-known brands in the United States. These companies include Wal-Mart Stores Inc., reportedly the largest buyer at the Tazreen factory, as well as The Walt Disney Co., Sears
Garment workers demanding unpaid wages from notorious factory owner.
Bangladesh police on Thursday stormed a factory where garment workers were on their 10th day of a hunger strike in a demand for unpaid wages. The police used batons, a water cannon, rubber bullets and teargas to disperse the 400
