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Towards worker-driven remedy: advancing human and labour rights in global supply chains
Full text linkThis article examines the importance of rights-holder-driven remedy in addressing widespread abuse in global supply chains. It exposes the limitations of existing approaches and analyses the development of the Principles of Worker-Driven Remedy by Electronics Watch as a promising advancement. In particular, it emphasises the role of public buyers and public procurement in addressing power imbalances and enabling rights-holders to play a central role in their own remediation process. The practical implementation of the Principles is also discussed, highlighting the need for collaborative efforts to ensure that remedy is truly driven by those who have been harmed by human and labour rights abuse in global supply chains
Making a Video Documentary on Fake News and Disinformation in Bangladesh: Critical Reflections and Learning
No full textThe issue of fake news and disinformation remains widespread in Bangladesh. The author produced a video documentary “Making OR Faking” that focuses on how this issue affects journalism practices in the mainstream media in Bangladesh. In this piece, the author reflects on how the making of the documentary shaped his understanding of the issue. Undertaking a qualitative approach, the author used semi-structured interviews to explore the insights and perspectives of key informants. Critical reflections on the methodological aspects of the filmmaking process highlight the challenges in processing the construction of meaning through moving images. The analyses of the findings underscore the conceptual issues in understanding fake news and disinformation, the emergence of fake news in Bangladesh, and the impacts on the mainstream media. The article also explores potential ways to tackle this issue
Making a Video Documentary on Fake News and Disinformation in Bangladesh: Critical Reflections and Learning
Full text linkThe issue of fake news and disinformation remains widespread in Bangladesh. The author produced a video documentary “Making OR Faking” that focuses on how this issue affects journalism practices in the mainstream media in Bangladesh. In this piece, the author reflects on how the making of the documentary shaped his understanding of the issue. Undertaking a qualitative approach, the author used semi-structured interviews to explore the insights and perspectives of key informants. Critical reflections on the methodological aspects of the filmmaking process highlight the challenges in processing the construction of meaning through moving images. The analyses of the findings underscore the conceptual issues in understanding fake news and disinformation, the emergence of fake news in Bangladesh, and the impacts on the mainstream media. The article also explores potential ways to tackle this issue
Forced Labour and Access to Education of Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh: Beyond a Humanitarian Crisis
Full text linkRohingya refugee children in Bangladesh are forced into labour both inside and outside the
camps for a wide range of reasons. This article examines this situation in relation to the access to
education for those children living in the camps in Cox’s Bazar. Being informed by several
perspectives concerning child labour and access to schooling in developing country contexts, this
research work has adopted a qualitative approach to study various factors working behind this
pressing issue. After collecting data by means of qualitative methods, including non-participant
observations and semi-structured interviews, the researcher has analyzed the findings with these
informed perspectives. Results show that lack of formal identity, limited access to the formal
labour market, absence of social sanctions against child employment, lack of aspirations,
household composition, and substandard living conditions are some of the key factors that drive
children to engage in various forms of labour, especially outside the camps. They often work in
small workshops as labourers and in the host community households as domestic workers.
Undocumented children are also reported to become victims of bonded labour, sex trade, and
trafficking in the region. The author argues that a lack of formal education has compounded this
issue into a severe humanitarian crisis which calls for immediate support and actions from local
and international agencies
Tobacco Control Politics in Bangladesh
Full text linkDespite having a set of well-intended tobacco control policies since 2003, the production and consumption of tobacco in Bangladesh have increased. This paper explains why the tobacco control policies in Bangladesh failed to deliver their intended outcomes. Using a combined framework of political economy and policy implementation analysis, this study examines the information collected from primary and secondary sources. Based on the findings, the paper argues that the game of interests among the stakeholders have made the state institutions inactive and ineffective. Lack of political commitment and politics of interests have failed the implementation and skewed the outcome
Hazardous Child Labor in Bangladesh: A critical evaluation of the legal and policy framework vis a vis practical challenges
Full text linkBangladesh is a signatory of the International Labor Organization’s two landmark conventions on child labor – No.138 on Minimum Age and No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. The Bangladesh Labor Act, 2006 prohibits the employment of any child in child labor’s worst forms, including hazardous ones. To eliminate hazardous child labor (HCL) from the country, the government published a list of 38 activities/processes as hazardous to children. However, emerging data suggest that HCL still exists widely in the country, and the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the situation. The review of existing evidence and relevant reports evinces that the country’s current policies inadequately address the status and remedies of HCL. Based on the author’s desk review, observational experience and visual work, this paper evaluates the competence of the hazardous labor list and current legal protections for children. The findings suggest that lack of implementation, reporting and monitoring opens the floodgate for employers to informally employ children in hazardous work and take advantage of the legal lacunae. Destitute families and street children lack citizenship documents and become easy victims of exploitative employment. The analysis informs that the country’s existing legislative framework and protection policies are critically inadequate to cease HCL in urban areas
Evaluation of Speakers by the Participants at a Training Academy in Bangladesh: Issues, Insights and Recommendations
Full text linkConsistent evaluation of speakers is an integral part of any training program. Bangladesh Civil Service Administration Academy imparts training primarily for newly recruited administrative civil servants. Depending on both primary and secondary data, this study examines various issues related to the lack of credibility of the speaker-evaluation by the participants to provide deep insights and potential solutions. Secondary data was collected from 300 evaluation forms and the academic backgrounds of 20 regular speakers. A questionnaire-led survey was conducted among 36 participants of a training program to obtain primary data. Although the regular speakers are usually highly educated and professionally experienced, the one-sided subjective feedback remains critical to this evaluation process. The statistical analysis of both primary and secondary data shows that the participants do not invest enough time and thought for completing the evaluation. A reluctance to put descriptive observations makes the outcome of the evaluation lose some of its credibility. Participants have also pointed out a few critical limitations of the form. Findings suggest that adding qualitative measures to the form can be useful to provoke qualitative views from the participants and to obtain constructive suggestions for the speakers. Further insights from the speakers can be valuable to complement the outcome of this study. This study concludes that the Academy must combine planned and incidental evaluations to revitalize the effectiveness of the process
The Myth of Objectivity in Sports Reporting
Full text linkDespite so many long held debates, objectivity has become a widely accepted method of practicing journalism in all parts of the world. In journalism, it refers to the reporting or describing of an incident as it is, and it is meant to be neutral as possible, without holding any kind of prejudices. Importantly, it is an achieved quality by a journalist, or a news media outlet. Ironically, many analysts observed that this very objectivity is missing in sports reporting lately. It raises a few questions. Does reporting about sports not call for objectivity? If not, what might be the reasons? Or, is it satisfactory to not be objective in reporting sports
Reviewing child labour and its worst forms: Contemporary theoretical and policy agenda
No full textThe global response to child labour is based on the standards set by three major international
conventions. This review examines the historical development of the conceptualizations of
various forms of child labour, relevant views and perspectives, contemporary theoretical
underpinnings, and policy suggestions. The emerging evidence shows that child labour
incidences in all its forms have increased in many parts of the world, and the global target to
eradicate child labour by 2025 seems unattainable. The evaluation indicates that the current
global age-based abolitionist policy to fight child labour has lost some ground. The covid-19
pandemic has worsened the situation and the worst forms of child labour have become even
more widespread and deeply normalized in many contexts and communities. The current
scholarship of child labour remains critically ignorant of the relevant societal and cultural norms.
Contemporary theorists and empiricists emphasize on constructing knowledge with the children
and families engaged in child labour and focusing on finding innovative community-led
alternatives to the worst forms of child labour. Regulations, policies, and support programmes
must recognize the economic contribution of working children and work towards the children's
best interests
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