Dhaka, Bangladesh: Momin Mohammad, a leather worker, brushes his teeth by a canal near his home in the city's polluted Hazaribagh neighborhood. Each day, tanneries dump 22,000 liters of toxic waste into the Buriganga, the capital city's main river and key water supply.
As hundreds of thousands of Myanmar muslims seek safety in the country, they have little choice but to overburden the jungles on which their livelihoods depend.
In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma and Shakbaria rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.
Rohingya Muslim refugees who were stranded after leaving Myanmar walk toward the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district on November 2nd, 2017.
Rohingya Muslim refugees look at the hundreds of tents filling a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhiya district on October 4th, 2017.
A study in Bangladesh highlights markedly different disease dynamics in the urban core versus the more rural periphery.
Second generation South Asians in London are well on their way to becoming W.E.I.R.D.
An FBI agent offered up confidential information about a political operative’s enemy in exchange for cash—and they both got caught. What were they thinking?
Walmart and Benetton ducked a meeting in Geneva today on restitution.
The garment industry finds that oversight of its far-off contractors is back in fashion. How tightly the industry wants to regulate itself is a matter of style.
After the deadly building collapse in Bangladesh, Walmart released a list of factories it had banned. But it has continued receiving shipments from two of them.
Sweatshops are great political targets for unions, who have incentives to drive up the price of manufacturing abroad. But better building inspectors is a rare union demand, at least compared to longer break times and higher wages.