Empowering the garment workers: Impact of Alliance in Bangladesh

The giant North American retail companies including JCPenney, Kohl's, Macy's, Nordstrom, Sears, Target, Canadian Tire, The Children's Place, Costco, Fruit of the Loom, Gap, Hudson's Bay, VF Corporation and Wal-Mart formed the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety (Alliance) in 2013 to advance garment worker safety in Bangladesh. It assembled all...

The EU Is fuelling hunger in Africa

Africa is becoming a new Covid-19 epicentre. In the recent weeks, South Africa reported a 60.0 per cent increase in natural deaths, suggesting a higher Covid death toll than reported. And the World Health Organization (WHO) recently warned that cases are proliferating across Sub-Saharan Africa, including my country, The Gambia....