US election: People have emphatically renounced bigotry, divisiveness and xenophobia

The US presidential election process that began about eighteen months ago but gained momentum in the past six months culminated on November 3 handing down a decisive verdict against bigotry, divisiveness and xenophobia. In an unprecedented turn out of about 150 million voters, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., has been elected...

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Empowering garment workers in Bangladesh: The unfinished work of European retailers

Following a series of garment factory fire and building collapses during the last decade that killed hundreds of garment workers and mutilated thousands more, the Western large retailers mostly from Europe formed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (Accord) to advance workplace safety in Bangladesh's garment sector....

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