The Impact of COVID-19 on Workers’ Livelihoods, Government and Grassroots Initiatives in Response to COVID-19 and Financing for Social Protection Floor in Bangladesh
By Asad Uddin Program Coordinator Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE)
Online premiere of Victim Diaries. Victim Diaries documented the situation of occupational and environmental victims under the pandemic. Watch the testimonies of victims, their struggle against their condition and COVID 19 and how they keep up the hope.
April 24th, 2016 marked the 3rd anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy that killed 1,129 garment workers and injured thousands more.
The Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE), as part of its ongoing advocacy to ensure social protection for the workplace accident victims and affected families, organized a human chain and laid wreaths at the site of the Rana Plaza disaster in Savar.
Stop oil palm plantations! Fight for land, fight for life!
Statement
March 30, 2016
As we mark the Day of the Landless on March 29, the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) is launching the “Stop Oil Palm Plantations!” campaign. This, amidst the massive and aggressive expansion of the palm oil industry that further threatens the life and livelihood of countless farmers, farm workers, indigenous peoples, and other oppressed and exploited rural sectors in the region.