Along with other countries, Bangladesh went into a nationwide lockdown to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the end of March. The country’s version of lockdown has been quite controversial, as garment factories resumed operations despite the drastic measures taken elsewhere in society. As Rumi, one of the 4.1 million textile workers, puts it: “Police and
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Religious violence between the Hindu majority and the Muslim minority in India reached its worst for decades at the end of February. More than 50 people died, and thousands were injured in Delhi, mainly Muslims, as a consequence of massive violence in the capital. In four days in the north-east of Delhi, many mosques, Muslim
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With a population of almost 1.2 billion people, 1.2 million square miles, and more than 1000 different languages, India truly is a unique country. A country that many people are aware of, but don’t really know what’s really going on. This article aims to explain how India has become the country it is now, and
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Millions of tons of plastic became dislocated when China closed its borders to the imports of developed countries’ waste in 2018. As the country had been storing the imported plastic waste on its land for decades, global waste management was severely turned around with this ban. Two-thirds of global plastic waste that used to be
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