Lost Rights, Lost Lives
Out of the rubble of a garment factory, just outside Dhaka, hundreds of bodies of women are brought to light, shalwar kameez and saris vivid against death’s pallor. In the capital itself, meanwhile, Islamic extremists burn buses, loot shops and attack policemen. Their main demand: an Islamic state, in which women are segregated from men.
The irony is lost on them that it is women who bring vital resources to Bangladesh (at $19 billion, the overwhelmingly female garment industry is the country’s main income earner); women who toil hardest to sustain many livelihoods beyond their own; women who bear the brunt of an appalling labor-safety record.… Seguir leyendo »