The government targets having over 60 HKC-compliant yards by 2030. The new regulatory direction places environmental safety, transparency, and international alignment at the core of operations.

If European countries make ESG standards mandatory and Bangladesh fails to comply, exports to the bloc may immediately drop by around 30 percent, according to the South Asian Network on Economic ...

Between 2022 and 2024, Bangladesh sent over one million migrant workers abroad annually. While the vast majority migrate through regular channels, several hundred cases each year involve irregular ...

As the climate justice movement gains ground, this year's Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB 62) served as a critical ...

By building a gigantic dam just before the river exits Chinese-controlled territory, Beijing gains the power to manipulate cross-border flows.

While the Yarlung Tsangpo constitutes 56 per cent of the Brahmaputra’s length, it contributes only about 15 percent of the ...

Pakistan is too remote geographically, economically, and ideologically from ASEAN to justify its urgent bid for closer integration, argues Vaishali Basu Sharma ...

The interim Bangladesh government of Mohammed Yunus is falling short in implementing its challenging human rights agenda a year since tens of thousands of people took to the street to successfully ...

The newly launched SANEM Sustainability Centre aims to serve as a research and dialogue hub focused on building capacity and informing evidence-based policymaking around sustainability issues in ...

Bangladesh on Wednesday reaffirmed its commitment to combatting human trafficking, recognising it as a grave violation of human rights and a serious form of organised crime.

Marking the anniversary of the July 2024 protests in Bangladesh, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has called for accountability for the violations and crimes committed during the ...