The government of Bangladesh and Western retailers are making steps towards improving work conditions in the country, three weeks after a factory collapse killed over 1,100 in Dhaka. Katie Quan, associate chair at the University of California's Ce...

Dozens were killed and one million people evacuated from their homes as Cyclone Mahasen roared into the southern coast of Bangladesh. Mud and straw huts were flattened by heavy rains and winds, and entire villages were inundated with floods. But M...

A survivor has been found in the rubble of a garment factory, 17 days after its collapse left more than 1,000 people dead. The woman, who identified herself to rescuers as Reshma, had cried out for help as recovery teams sifted through the remnan...

As the death toll from the Bangladesh garment factory collapse rose over 1,000, workers were amazed to find somebody still alive in the rubble after 17 days. Crews cheered and prayed as the woman, who had survived on dried food and bottle water, w...

In the latest deadly accident in Bangladesh's garment industry, at least eight people were killed when fire swept through a Dhaka factory overnight. The fire came as officials announced that the death toll from the building collapse two weeks ago ...

At least 20 people have been killed and person and several injured when thousands of Islamic activists demanding an anti-blasphemy law clashed violently with Bangladesh police in Dhaka. Protesters set fires and hurled rocks as security forces fire...

Citizens in Bangladesh are furious after the deadly collapse of a factory in Dhaka that left over 300 people dead, and many still missing. Workers and grieving family members took to the streets, demanding justice from local officials and from Wes...

The Dhaka building collapse should spur US lawmakers to insist that countries exporting to the US give workers their legal rights, labor activist Charlie Kernaghan tells Democracy Now!, noting that Congress has done more to protect trademarks -- a...

Thousands of furious workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day, calling for safer conditions and better compensation for all workers, and demanding the death penalty for the owner of a garment factory complex that collapsed last week, crush...

The owner of the Bangladesh garment factory building which collapsed, killing at least 377 people, has been paraded before the media after being captured while trying to flee to India. Rescue efforts continued after a fire that erupted at the site...