Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Similarities with the Tunisian uprising in 2008 and the Egypt under Mubarak are there. Related Striking garment workers

A list of demands by students has been circulated in an underground press release. Shahidul Alam puts the demands in a broader context and assess their validity and effectiveness.

Where are those liberal Westerners – especially the feminists – who want to ‘empower oppressed Muslim women’ ? From Aljazeera.com: A female garment worker uses a mobile phone while coming out of a factory during her lunch hour at the Ashulia area on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on November 8, 2023 [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Could ‘bioregions’ be the answer?

  How Bangladesh sold its future to the Gulf states

Protests predicted to surge globally

Just a mere new story of exploitation Shocking conditions [for whom?] in PPE factories supplying UK or Workers making sacrifices to save lives in the West!

The failed repatriation efforts come as  a UN report  revealed the extent to which the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, systematically used sexual violence, including the gang rape of men and women, as part of a strategy to intimidate the Rohingya during “clearance operations” in 2016 and 2017. It was these crackdowns that precipitated the exodus of more than 700,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh, where they still live in squalid camps. Rohingya refugees turn down second Myanmar repatriation effort

Iran: Stop jailing teachers now! A Dutch company bashing workers rights in Bangladesh

Although global media outlets like the  Economist  have made the case that the Rohingya of Burma are the “ most persecuted people in the world ” for several years at this point, their plight has yet to fully register around the world. Does that mean that what's been happening to the millions of Syrians is not persecution? The assertion above does not say "the most persecuted ethnic group." I don't understand the criteria used here and not questioned or at least qualified by the Economist and Jacobin editors. The Catasrophe of the Rohingya

Rana Plaza disaster – five years on Sweat and blood in our shirts and trousers. But  where are Bill and Angelina?

Like the carving of the Arab countries, here is another criminal legacy of the British Empire: "British judge Cyril Radcliffe was brought in to draw up the border between India and Pakistan. It meant cutting two of India's most powerful and populous provinces in half; Punjab and Bengal. Radcliffe had never been to India before and never returned. This rushed partition would have repercussions for decades to come." The Partition of India and Pakistan