On April 24, 2024, the global community marks the 11th anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy. The Rana Plaza, an eight-story structure that accommodated five garment factories with more than 5,000 workers, collapsed on April 24, 2013. The incident left the deaths of 1,132 workers and injured more than 2,500…
On 24 April the world commemorated the ninth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh — a catastrophe in corporate history. The eight-storey Rana Plaza building contained five garment factories with 5,000 workers making clothes for Benetton, Matalan, Mango, Primark and other major brands. On the morning of 23…
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With COP26 taking place in Glasgow this month, everyone is talking climate change. How can we save our planet? While political and business leaders from around the globe are debating the issue, we’ve been looking closer to home and asking the next generation for their ideas.
I recently enjoyed a…
This interview with Professor Aziz Islam was written by Sam Hadad for the The Times-Raconteur, you can read the original article here.
Growing up in Dhaka, Professor Muhammad Azizul Islam was surrounded by densely packed garment factories supplying far-away companies. Seeing tired workers leaving buildings late at night inspired his future…
This blog was written by Professor Aziz Islam for The Conversation, you can read the original article here.
Over the past three decades, global inequality has reached a critical level. The world’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%. Multinational fashion companies have secured billions of dollars by…
While the coronavirus pandemic represents the most immediate, and very significant challenge to the world, the impact of climate change on the planet arguably represents a bigger long-term challenge for humanity. Evidence of the negative impact of human activity on the planet’s ecosystem has become increasingly visible over recent years,…
The Guardian’s recent article titled, ‘Revealed: Spice Girls T-shirts made in factory paying staff 35p an hour’, once again reminds us that modern slavery is ingrained in global supply chains. This time, it is celebrities who are the centre of controversy, despite the otherwise socially responsible claim that £11.60 raised…
For more than a decade, I have been researching whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) actually advances corporate social transparency and accountability as expected. Presently I take a deeper look at CSR.
One can observe that a few decades ago CSR was considered as a self-regulatory mechanism ensuring that corporations voluntarily…
