Every single step forward, in reality means a thousand steps back, in trying to implement change in the garment industry
After endless meetings with factory owners, directors and managers of all kinds – everything from spiritual preachers making broad statements that “Happiness, and power is worthless if not shared, this is why I always tell my workers that in the end I am their slave, we are interdependent so need to feel each other and show [...]
Trying to get my head around the jungle and theatre of contradictions that is the garment industry in Bangladesh
After my first three weeks as a project manager with the goal of improving the social labour conditions for female line-operators in the garment industry in Bangladesh by providing them with free training and skills-upgrading to become supervisors and move up the hierarchical gendered ladder of highly exploitative factory work, I have been faced with [...]
Aid and the media: a problematic relationship
On 25th January 2011, The Frontline Club held a discussion entitled Aid and the Media. It was described as examining the often troubled relationship between the media and aid agencies, with an expert panel discussing how the media and aid agencies work together and the problems that arise. The panel was varied, including an [...]
Ban Ki-Moon: ‘Human Protection and the 21st Century United Nations’
This is a review of the 2011 Cyril Foster Lecture given by the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, His Excellency Mr Ban Ki-Moon. It was organised by the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations and took place in the Examinations Schools on 2 February 2011. Ban Ki-Moon speaking at [...]
